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The elegant spire and pinnacles of the parish church of St John feature in many views of this town, situated at the foot of Skiddaw in the northern Lake District.

These elegant Scots pines on the shores of Buttermere are among the most photographed of any in the Lake District, but this must be one of the earliest pictures of them.

Hotel in 1847 - the same year as the Kendal and Windermere Railway reached the town - and his yellow-and-black coaches provided a connecting service from the adjacent station to various parts of the Lake

unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

The School buildings, seen from across Eleven Acre Lake, were intended to fit into the Georgian parkland.

A walk around Maisemore taking in the lake is very pleasing.

On the left of the picture we can see the boating lake.

Here we see the North or Marine Lake about ten years after it opened. In the centre background is a windmill, which was situated on the top of the boathouse.

With a water surface of ninety acres and surrounded by open spaces, Hollingworth Lake became a popular destination for workers on their days off.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

The whole complex was a focal point of entertainment, with a theatre, ballrooms, a roller-rink, snooker rooms, a skating rink, a menagerie, various refreshment stalls, an aviary, a monkey house and a lake

A view from near the Clarence Gate bridge at the southern end of the Boating Lake.

Red Lion Square takes its name from the famous old inn on the left of this photograph.

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

This corner of Fairhaven Lake provides a quirky aside to the larger statement made by the leisure facilities in the gardens proper.

Silecroft, near Millom, stands at the southernmost extremity of the Lake District National Park, at the foot of Black Combe (1,970 ft).

The twin lakes of Crummuck Water and Buttermere were once one, but were separated by the alluvium left by Sail Beck.

On the first floor there was a lavatory that projected out over the lake.

The lady in her long black dress and the gentleman wait for the ferryman to take them across to the western side of the lake, where the wooded Claife Heights stretch away to the right.

Victoria Street leads off Church Street, now the A591, in this busy little town; it was originally known as Birthwaite, but it changed its name to match that of the nearby lake when the railway arrived

In the grounds are Knepp Mill Pond, the largest lake in Sussex, and the remains of William de Braose's castle.

Looking across the lake in St Stephen's Green to the portico of the Royal College of Surgeons. It was designed by Edward Parke in 1806 and completed in 1829.

The tower in the picture was at the end of an aerial ride that carried passengers over the lake; the ride was closed and dismantled at the end of the 1911 season.