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The man with the horse and cart on the left is at the village pump, which is situated in front of the Methodist Chapel.

In 1111967 Accrington Corporation took over the maintenance of the graveyard at St James' Chruch. Several tombstones were removed, and the graveyard was tidied.

The clearance of the navigation was a very contentious issue in the early 17th century and an Act enabling the building of locks and wharves was not passed until 1664.

The longest canal tunnel in Scotland is on the Union Canal. It was built because the Forbes family did not want Callendar House to look onto a canal. The tunnel is 630 metres long.

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

Here we have a splendidly detailed view of Godalming's High Street towards the end of the Victorian era.

Punting on the river in pre-war days. Near here is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

This was the first of the open spaces provided for the workers of Wakefield at the end of the 19th century.

This village was one of Britain's major naval shipbuilding centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. For 500 years, oaks here were used in the building of some of Britain's greatest ships.

Round Oak Iron Works in the 1850s.Though by no means the first iron works in the area, it would become the most important.

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson. Fire bricks were produced here in the second half of the 19th century.

A nostalgic scene of tiny Dooega, a cluster of cottages on the south western seaboard of Achill. Fishing nets are left out to dry on the cobbles at the top of the beach.

At the other end of the extended village of Gronant, before the area was given over to holiday accommodation and caravans, the post office not only sold stamps but also petrol and paraffin.

John Askew, who was at one time Liverpool's harbour master, founded the Egremont ferry service. The service finally closed in 1941 after the pier was badly damaged when a ship collided with it.

Cattle seek the cool waters of the River Teme. After its journey through Wales, the river meanders through Shropshire and Worcestershire before joining the River Severn at Worcester.

Horse-drawn coaches wait patiently to take passengers from the boats at Waterhead, near Ambleside on Windermere.

The scene here has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken more than one hundred years ago.

This sea-port at the mouth of the Nedd derived its importance from its docks and from its steel and iron works.

On the left are the Abbey fields, at the end of which stands the late 13th-century church of St Nicholas. Nearby are the ruins of Kenilworth Abbey, founded and endowed by Geoffrey de Clinton in 1122.

A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.

The site is quite near the part of the River Stort that had been used for swimming lessons and galas by local schools for at least one hundred years.

The 775 employees at Wolverton Works in 1851 grew to 2,000 by 1860, with the LNWR the largest single employer in North Bucks; a company engine driver earned nearly four times as much as an agricultural

Thatched roofs predominate in this turn-of-the-century view of Madingley.

Paignton's harbour is an extension of a simple early shelter for shipping. Though not as protected as the harbour at Brixham, it maintained a fishing fleet for several centuries.