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Phipps ales and stout and wines and spirits can just be seen advertised on either side of the main door of the thatched Royal Oak in Blisworth.

It is a classic example of contour cutting by the engineer Samuel Simcock: there are no locks, because the canal hugs the contours of the land.

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

Situated at the southern end of Filey's long beach, the outcrop of Flamborough Head can be seen in the distance.

The thing which is most striking about these old photographs is the absence of traffic. Just you try walking up Khyber Pass in the middle of the road today.

Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.

The red-brick village school with its bell-tower and half-tiled gables was built on the main road between Ashford and Royal Tunbridge Wells during the late 19th century, adjoining the churchyard of Holy

Daniel Defoe, speaking of Leominster, described it as having 'nothing very remarkable about it, but that it is a well-built, well- inhabited town.

Open-air swimming pools are probably the direct descendants of the sea-bathing craze that swept the country during the 19th century. Many towns had open-air pools, though few now survive.

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

The rowing boat in this view is approaching the boat slide, the abutment of which is just visible on the far left. The huge weeping willow beyond is on a small island.

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

The hydropathic movement started in the 1830s using ordinary water and offering a variety of treatments, including Turkish, Russian, sitz baths, electrical, douche and vapour.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

So busy was London bridge at peak times that the authorities were compelled to station police constables along the central rib of the roadway to encourage a smooth flow of traffic.

Sir Henry Williamson Peek, of the biscuit family, built a mansion here in 1870 and while he was at it got his architects, George and Vaughan, to build this church.

Before the commissioning of the transporter bridge a ferry operated across the Tees to Port Clarence.

Here, we are looking out onto King's Parade from the front of King's College. To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

The Bugle Hotel c1955 Although Yarmouth never really devel- oped as a traditional seaside resort, there are stretches of sand available for bath- ing.

The second largest town in Oxfordshire, Banbury has long been famous as the main meeting point of routes from the Midlands to London and Oxford.

The architecture captured in late Victorian and early Edwardian photographs often provides an indication of the resort's origins.