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The village was established around the manor and three large estates; much of the land was owned by the Lennox family.

The large building is the Market Cross and Theatre, built by the Adam brothers in 1774-80. To the left the shops include Hepworth's, Home and Colonial, and International Stores.

Church Cottages, or Hyde Park Corner Cottages, are five almshouses run by the George Savage Trust. In 1971 they were severely damaged by fire, and were rebuilt and reopened in 1972.

Buxton's warm springs are thought to have been first discovered by the Romans, but it was the Duke of Devonshire who really popularised the lofty Georgian town (its stands at over 1,000ft above the sea

The towpath on the right bank was used by the horses which once pulled the barges. Grappenhall has two of the characteristic narrow hump-backed bridges designed to carry road traffic over the canal.

Consecrated in May 1885, the church was entirely financed by the first Sir Gilbert Greenall, a devout Anglican.

By the 1950s, most people associated it with the dreadful smell emerging from the infamous bone works.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The first mail coach from London reached here on 16 October 1789, superseded a century later by the railway. Just beyond the old Swan Hotel, centre left, is the entrance to Boroughbridge Hall.

It is surrounded by the dramatic mountains of Wasdale, popular with walkers and climbers, and as a result is one of the most visited churches in the Lakes.

It passed into the hands of the Neville family, and Richard came here to be tutored by the Earl of Warwick, whose daughter Anne he later married.

A policeman stands on point duty at the junction of Lansdown, King Street, the High Street, and Gloucester Street, with the Greyhound Inn, built by the Stroud brewery in 1904, on the extreme

In those days before people worried about pollution, most of the buildings were blackened by the continual shroud of coal smoke from domestic chimneys.

Above the high altar is the magnificent rose window, over 98 feet in circumference, depicting Christ surrounded by the twelve apostles and the twenty-four elders.

This too was destroyed by a blaze in 1914, which was allegedly started by the Suffragettes, who had been refused permission to hold a meeting there. A third pavilion opened within months.

On the left the butcher takes time out for a chat, while the young boys are either intrigued by the antics of our cameraman, or waiting for something to run him over.

The lodge by the gate has now gone.

By the beginning of the 17th century those Englishmen who could afford it had taken up the craze for smoking tobacco in pipes made of clay.

This one, however, did not get renewed after World War II by the Indiana Limestone Company, and only the plinth survives.

Massey's Folly, as it is known, was constructed by the eccentric Reverend Massey, a vicar of Farringdon between 1857 and 1919.

His estate was confiscated by the Crown and later given to Margaret Tudor and her husband the Earl of Lennox. Their son married Mary, Queen of Scots.

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

Chapel Street is framed by the arched entrance to St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and its grounds. The arch is a memorial to a past priest, Father Crank, and was put up in 1913.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.