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We are looking east towards the town centre; the Market House dome is just visible at the end of the street.

It was taken over to become the County Asylum in 1829, which was enlarged over the years and closed in April 1993, when it was called St Audrey's Hospital.

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

This and photograph No 23535 are taken from Eel Pie Island, apparently named after the famous pies sold at the Island Tavern.

The church of St John Baptist was rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662. Goff's Farm is a good example of a 17th- century Wealden farmhouse. The Half Moon is a 16th-century inn.

It dates from the 1840s, when Sir Henry Bunbury created the park around the Hall. The gate was to the left, and survives today at the entrance to St John's.

The Church of the Epiphany and St John in Elizabeth Street stands 105ft high; its design is superb, with a star-shaped roof and an aluminium-coated steel- framed spire surmounted with a combined

Conceived in a typically robust style by John Coates Carter, the Victoria Road church is seen here in the first decade of its existence.

St Margaret's church and the village lie in the Lune Valley, 9 miles from Lancaster.

The parish church of St John was described as 'one of the architectural ornaments of the town', and the interior came in for much praise.

Augustus John, the painter, lived at Fryern Court, north of the village, from 1927 to 1961.

This busy conduit linking St John's and High Street affords a perfect view of the tower.

The church on the left is St John's, the tower of which is topped off with a small spirelet and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries.

The inscription 'Nequid pereat' is a quotation from St John's Gospel, and means 'Let nothing perish (or be lost)', referring to the church fabric and the passage of time.

On market days it echoes Yarmouth's seafaring traditions, the colourful awnings stretching out like waves to the horizon.

The present church of St John's occupies the nave of the former priory; the choir and chancel were destroyed in 1470 when the central tower collapsed.

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from the one of the same name in Venice.

It is now all offices, and the Roman Catholic chapel has been deconsecrated. The biggest tenant is now the St John's Ambulance. There are fine views from the building over the Trent and Witham valley.

A church stood on the site of the present St John teh Baptis;s church over 900 years ago.

King John of France was imprisoned here after the battle of Poitiers in 1356. In 1361 the Black Prince married Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, and they honeymooned in Berkhamsted.

Prior to the development of the coastal resort at Colwyn Bay in Victorian times, the old village, lying to the east and just inland from the coast, was known merely as Colwyn.

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.

Further north along Gateford Road, near the Gladstone Street turn, the spire of St John the Evangelist's can be seen on the right behind the tall three-storey terrace of 1870s shops.

The higher part of Kilburn village, including the parish church of St Mary (which we can see in the background, centre) clusters around its large village green.