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This picture shows a scene similar to the previous view, but was taken a little further up the street and 20 years later.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

This was part of the Victoria University, which was constituted in 1880, the other colleges being at Manchester and Liverpool.

In the sixteenth century one of Glasgow University's leading academics was Andrew Melville. Melville had studied in France and taught at Calvin's academy in Geneva.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

Fore Street is exceptionally narrow at this point, where the King's Arms with its slate-hung upper floor is rather lost in the middle distance.

This sheltered harbour lies east of Ilfracombe. At its head is Watermouth Castle, built in 1825 for Joseph Davie Bassett.

This photograph was taken a century ago, and a world away from the same road today, which seems at times like a public motor-racing circuit - it is now part of the Ashford ring road.

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

It was rural, bucolic scenes like this one at 600-acre Quince Farm that inspired Tennyson to write a poem of 47 words while visiting the area one summer's day in the 1860s.

A Hants & Dorset bus approaching the Sir John Barleycorn pub at Cadnam in the New Forest.

It was one of the first colleges to be built in red brick at the time when the rather expensive fashion of imported stone began to decline.

At the beginning of the 19th century Brading's curate was Legh Richmond, whose moral tale 'The Annals of the Poor' and other rural stories enjoyed a large readership.

Magdalen College 1890 A classic Victorian picture of Oxford, which shows a punt on the Cherwell and the striking Perpendicular bell tower of Magdalen College in the background.

What a blissful way to get home at the end of the day. Imagine the pleasure of gliding along between meadow grass and wild flowers on the banks, accompanied by the music of birdsong.

This view looks down on the A6 trunk road, which passes across the centre of the picture, at Whatstandwell, seven miles west of Matlock.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

A walk down High Street from Westgate to the Buttercross takes the sightseer along one of the most ancient streets in the realm.

Woolworth's store, seen here at the end of this section of Kirkgate (centre), draws shoppers down this precinct past the shops on the right, built in the early 1960s.

The long pier was built to allow steamers to call at any state of the tide.

There are many hill forts that punctuate the western escarpment; the majority of them belong to the Iron Age, and date from about 600 BC.

A picture of perfect peace and tranquillity is shown here, but Woodchester was one of the places where riots broke out during the early 19th century industrial revolution when weavers and

We are looking from Parliament's St Stephen's Entrance. The chapel, at the abbey's east end, was completed in 1512 after ten years of building work.

Situated in Princess Street, Miss Matty's teashop could once be found above Cecil Harrison's, the chemist in the centre of the picture.