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On the south side is London House, the store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover & Son.

Some said that his glorious creation was compromised by poor building work, but all agreed that Nash conjured for this region of the West End a genteel and polished atmosphere that has considerably

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.

This stately home stands at the higher end of the village of More Crichel.

For a time Stafford suffered unwanted international notoriety; nervous foreign tourists (mostly American) cancelled trips to the town.

The London Joint City and Midland Bank (established 1836), now the HSBC bank, occupies the site of No 1 the Market Place - the original site dates from 1260.

Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line.

With nine mill sites in the town, many enterprises used water to power the machinery necessary for their businesses — corn, paper, and cloth-fulling mills, saw mills, and tanneries.

Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,

Imagine the different noises, smells and preoccupations of the people seen in L117011 in the long-lost world of 1950s Britain.

Imagine the different noises, smells and preoccupations of the people seen in L117011 in the long-lost world of 1950s Britain.

At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.

This pool was once the venue for what must have been a spectacular and potentially hazardous swimming race, which was for local police officers.

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond.

This turf and stone rampart, with forts at two-mile intervals, served as the farthest frontier of the Roman Empire for barely half a century before it was abandoned and Roman Britain withdrew

Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

The ancient bridge in the foreground - the site dates from before 1180 - was in 1964 found to be unsafe and replaced.

By the time the railway arrived in Blackpool in 1846, the town was already a resort attracting several thousand visitors a year.

A scene of a typical village pub: quiet, unassuming and somewhat down-at-heel, but an essential part of the fabric of English rural life.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances.

It was built to help ships navigating the River Lune and to guide ships to Glasson docks - it was not built for the benefit of Barrow-in-Furness, as the town was only a small fishing hamlet at the time

During the 1530s, the rundown defences of Carlisle Castle were renovated in order to house the latest cannon technology; the Botchergate gateway was moved and the Citadel constructed in its place