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Begun in 1883, the Manchester Ship Canal was a major civil engineering project of the Victorian age.

Once the property of the priors of Durham, the fulling mill was once known as the Jesus Mill; it now houses the Durham University Museum of Archaeology.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

In 1929 the council negotiated the purchase, at a very reasonable figure, of a large area of land owned by the Fleming family, who were the patrons of North Stoneham, and it was named Fleming Park.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, but it fell into decline with the development of steam trawlers, which tended

Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.

Battenhall lies off London Road and was first recorded in Norman times, when the Poer family held the manor for the annual rent of one lamprey.

However this may have inhibited the design of the two floors of residential apartments - though not the quality of their fittings. The top floor of the keep was primarily a fighting platform.

There has been a fortification of one sort or another at Inverness since the time of King Brude in the 6th century.

By 1900 some of the College's austerity had been softened by creeper, but it still laboured under the cumbersome name of the Oxford Diocesan Training College for School Masters.

By 1960, the pedestrian crossing over Westgate had been moved to its present position, in the foreground of this view.

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

The flat landscape of the Broads is broken by windmills, church towers, or the masts of sailing boats.

The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.

To increase the trade of the local estate, Charlotte Bethell, the wife of the lord of the manor, financed this three-mile long canal, which opened in 1802. 90-ton keelboats brought coal to Leven and returned

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Taking its name from the south gate to Enfield Chase, and overlooking the Lea Valley, Southgate was a part of Edmonton until the late 19th century.

On the left of this photograph of the High Street is the boarded-up shop of E Wraight, cycle agent. The Wraight brothers were also builders, blacksmiths and undertakers.

This view typifies the unforgettable appeal of Kersey: brick, timber and plastered houses are raised to allow for the slope, with higher and higher steps to the front doors, and there is

At the end of Soss Lane, beyond the railway line, are two former pump houses with tall chimneys; their steam-powered beam engines are situated on the Mother Drain which runs parallel to the River Idle

From suburban West Bridgford we move east along the A52 to Radcliffe, its village centre some 300 yards south of the River Trent.

Judging by the clothes worn by the two ladies on the right, it is thought that this photograph was taken in the late 1940s. They are passing two of the main food shops of the town.

The 'Red Castle' has been the setting for a number of films over the years.