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This illustrious and sublime town is on the east bank of the River Ouse, two miles from the Wash.

A closer view of the group in the previous photograph reveals them relaxing on the slipway.

Hugh Lupus, the first of the Norman earls of Chester, is said to have ordered the construction of a weir so that the mills would have a regular source of water power.

Fontmell Magna's church has a sad memorial to a victim of one of the greatest tragedies of the last century.

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) was the principal founder of the English garden city movement.

A couple of old villagers pass the time of day with a youngster in the West Cumbrian village of Gosforth.

A pair of ladies in fashionable Edwardian costume stroll along the raised pavement of Rowcroft on their way to the shops of King Street. A little ahead of them is a gas lamp standard.

With the council's eventual acquisition of the pier in 1924 their financial commitment to it and to the development of the Esplanade would be huge, and spread over decades of work.

After the dissolution of Fountains Abbey, the land was eventually purchased by John Aislaby. He landscaped the fields and created the two lakes and the formal water gardens.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

A long-vanished view of Hoveton in the days of the horse and cart, the flaming torch sign for the school approach and the neatly thatched cottage.

Excavations were carried out on the Chapter House in 1902, when the graves of five Abbots, including that of Abbot Sampson, were discovered.

This waterfall is not as spectacular as the Rhenass falls of Glen Helen or those of Glen Meay or Dhoon Glen, but even so the Frith cameraman managed to provide us with a pleasing view of the Colby falls

On the downlands close by are a considerable number of prehistoric barrows - burial grounds of some of the earliest inhabitants.

Another general view of Matlock Bath, looking up towards the wooded Heights of Abraham on the skyline.

Only a mile or so from Petworth, the village of Byworth typifies the rural community in this Edwardian photograph.

The late 17th-century Town Hall was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, whose father was Dean of Windsor.

The sign on the creeper-clad walls of the Old Bridge Hotel proclaim it as 'one of England's best'.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than orna- ment.

On the corner of Kings Mill Lane, some timber-framed cottages are built gable-end to the street.

In Upton's churchyard lies a landlord of The White Lion.

Such shops would not have been out of place when the first Frith photographs of Hitchin were taken.

Prior to the opening of the railways, considerable quantities of goods for Norwich and the villages along the way were sent up- river from Great Yarmouth.