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Portsmouth Football Club The club was established on 5 April 1898, when six local businessmen bought five acres of land close to Goldsmith Avenue for £4,950 and formed Portsmouth Football Club.

During the 18th century, the roads Cherry Bounce, Chapel Street, Bell Road (now St Mary's Road), and George Street were all developing on the east side of the of the High Street and were in

These red brick terraces were built to house the employees of hosiery and shoe manufacturers at the turn of the century.

The older generation, one with his newspaper, wait for opening time at this aptly-named pub down by the fishing harbour.

Glasgow received its first charter from King William the Lion in about 1175, and for the first time it was designated by the Latin term civitas (city).

A local labourer and his dog obligingly pose for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

It was at Brampton that John Pepys, father of Samuel Pepys the diarist, inherited a large property worth about £80 per year.

Helensburgh was described as '…a favourite watering place, is pleasantly situated at the mouth of the Gare Loch, and is laid out with the mathematical regularity of an American city'.

The railway at Datchet runs between the Thames and the village centre. Datchet is mentioned in Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor' and Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat'.

For centuries small boats journeyed up-river to unload at the town's dock.

Here we see Evans Cliff and the view westwards to the Cobb at Lyme Regis (far left) beyond the landslips and mud-flows of Black Ven and the Shambles (centre).

The cliffs south of Milton are renowned for the profusion of fossils to be found. Examples can be seen in local museums and at the Natural History Museum in London.

We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.

It is said that it was last used in 1665 when 'two vagabonds were publicly flogged here'.

This superb Ketton stone-faced Gothic Revival church was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728

Richard Fleming Richard Fleming (died 1431) was rector of Boston from 1408 to 1419, when he became Bishop of Lincoln.

This area, surrounded by buildings, was known as Exchange Flags when it first opened at the end of the 1700s. At one time you had to be invited to walk on the Exchange Flags.

This is the view the big houses saw, with the new rows of houses which had helped to add nearly 50% to the town's population in ten years.

Looking across the sands to Smeaton's Pier. Fishing boats still bob at anchor on the high tide, but tourism is now the dominant industry.

Founded in 1823, this building, at the foot of The Mound, housed a statue gallery when this picture was taken. There was also a collection of casts that was open only to art students.

The statue of Queen Victoria graced the square from May 1904. A crowd of 70,000 cheered the Prince and Princess of Wales, who were also here to open the Bradford Exhibition at Lister Park.

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

Portreath was once a thriving little mining port at the terminus of Cornwall's first (horse-drawn) railway.

The creators of the impressive neo-Jacobean panelling probably never expected that it would one day be partnered with a set of utilitarian chairs that would look more at home in a village