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This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

Dolgellau was the county town of the old county of Merioneth, and is set amid the mountains which are famous for Welsh gold - the mines here provided gold for Royal wedding rings.

The castle dominates the town.

Another bandstand survived, providing concerts and dancing (old time and folk) in the 1950s and 60s; it still provides a weekly concert in summer.

There are no trees obstructing the road now, but otherwise this scene has altered little and markets are still held.

Racing on the Downs was started in 1802 by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and the course remains largely unchanged.

In the early years, all subscribers had their own separate line from the switchboard to their home or business.

The Town Hall, with its imitation Palladian style façade, was built on the site of the old Elborow School and Almshouses endowed by Richard Elborow in the 17th century.

Another view south down North End taken just over half a century after picture No 38651.

We are looking down Castle Hill, by the wall of Lancaster Castle.

Three balls, one white, one red and one blue, were paraded around the town.

East Harting feels remote, and consists of two lanes forming a rugby ball in plan.

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

E M Mumford, on the corner of the High Street and the Market Square, displayed enamel trade signs on its gable end when this photograph was taken in the mid 1950s.

Bell & Billows were a remarkable ironmongers in a handsome late Victorian building.

On the west side of the city, towards Fountains Abbey, stands the Spa Baths and Pump Room, opened on 24 October 1905 by Prince Henry of Battenburg.

Again we still see the old font in front of the priory arch and a gravel path to the right, long since disappeared, which presumably led to the greenhouse shown in the view of 1885.

Peter's Church, whose solid tower is visible peeking out from behind the building bearing a painted advertisement for the now defunct Home & Colonial store.

Encouraged by the changing political scene at both national and local levels, especially after the extension of the vote in 1918 and the rise of the Labour Party, Carlisle council found itself

By the mid 1950s much had changed, and the front of the Angel and Royal Hotel indicates the reason (see G43032 and G43099).

The Redgrave Road area of Vange did have a few pre-New Town shops near the Bull public house in Bull Road, and were reasonably near other old shops, which were mainly on the A13 road at Vange and Pitsea

In 1878 the Town Council obtained powers to clear the area; they began by extending the town centre with a fine new street connecting Castle Place with York Street.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

Brungerley Bridge is still popular today because of its proximity as a leisure area to Clitheroe town.