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Standing on the north-west side of Moat Road, this was an Anglican school for girls, run by St Margaret's Convent.

These days, Aberdeen is famous for its association with North Sea oil, but shipbuilding, fishing, papermaking and the quarrying of granite have all played their part in the city's development.

Just beyond is the North Eastern Railway's bridge over the Wear.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet moat

This view of Great Gable is unusual, as it is taken from the north.

In June 1840, Thomas Cook arranged a members' excursion to York by way of the Leeds & Selby and the York & North Midlands Railways.

Taken from the upper storey of a cottage in Church Street, this view of the north side of the church looks beguilingly medieval.

This landmark, familiar to drivers on the A1, was in the 1950s THE place for film stars to stay on their way north, and most of the cars we see here are in the luxury class.

This view looks north to the thatched cottages, Nos 456 and 458.

greenhouse in England is said to have been made and erected in Newnham by Sir Edward Mansell, who established the country's earliest coal-fired glass- making furnace at a works to the north

In the 1880s the Severn and Canal Carrying Company advertised daily services to Bristol, Gloucester, Kidderminster and towns further north.

Immediately north of the Town Hall there used to be a small park or square.

It is now a fragment: the nave north aisle is now the parish church with a monumental 15th-century tower capped by a squat spire.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401.

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

The North and South Brinks, sombre rows of mansions and warehouses, look out over each other on opposite sides of the river.

In the 1950s one of the latter was the weekly venue for the North Cheam Jazz Club, which featured a youthful George Melly and the Mick Mulligan Jazz Band as a regular attraction.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield

The church was restored in the 1860s and boasts wall paintings on the north wall of the nave.

These days Aberdeen is famous for its association with North Sea oil, but shipbuilding, fishing, papermaking and the quarrying of granite have all played their part in the city's development.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and several fine inns survive here.

Here we have the classic view of the west front, lop-sided in appearance since the north-west (left-hand) transept and tower fell in the late Middle Ages.

Situated about 8 miles north of Leicester, by Domesday 'Barhou' was settled.

The house, probably of the 18th century, with its mix of thatch and stone slates, fine gate piers, and a less substantial gate, masks the Boot and Shoe.