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This fine five-arched bridge over the River Derwent at Rowsley has carried traffic for nearly four hundred years.

It was the site of the medieval market, and 'shambles' was the common name associated with meat trading.

The Ulverston Canal was opened in 1796 to connect the town with the Leven Estuary, and to enable trade, both exports and imports, to be increased.

The prosperity of the North Wales coastline grew steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The rocky approach to this prominent outcrop upon which stands the small tower and remains of a larger castle looks wild, lonely and romantic, and it must have seemed a solitary outpost at times.

A sign in the river warns of hidden dangers for swimmers and small boats, but ashore there were plenty of safe ways to enjoy a summer's day on this pleasant, green, riverside corridor

This view is from inside the school quadrangle, with the Chapel and School House to the left. In front is the Great Hall, completed only 3 years before the photograph was taken.

The rocky coast around Heysham Head pro- vided excitement and danger for its Victorian and Edwardian visitors. No holiday in Morecambe or Lancaster was complete without a day at Heysham.

The huts to the left of the picture already look slightly past their best.

Many of the Morecambe Bay boats had names suggesting that they were bigger vessels, such as the 'Queen Mary' in the foreground -but she predated the Cunarder.

What an array of now classic cars; today, you would pay to see these at Beaulieu Motor Museum. Petersfield is a true market town, for markets are still held here on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

This street, now pedestrianised, was a busy part of the A30 trunk road. It was widened a century ago to cope with the increasing traffic.

At the time of its construction, it was thought to be the largest bathing pool in the world, accommodating 2,000 bathers and 10,000 spectators.

The Port Talbot bypass opened in the mid 1960s - for its first 10 years it was the A48(M).

The Gate, as locals call it, is at Woodgate, by a crossroads in a pleasant rural location between Hanbury and Bromsgrove. The origin of its unusual name is obscure.

These are the remains of part of the nave of the Benedictine abbey church that was completed by 1108.

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

The 1st Eastern General Hospital was set up in Nevile's Court in Trinity College at the beginning of World War 1, with beds placed around the cloisters.

Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway Company built the Zetland Hotel as a flagship project, hoping to attract other developers to the town as the concept of a new spa resort was being pursued.

The stream which rises at Lavenham Hall used to flow here, but now it runs in a brick culvert underground.

At the time of this photograph, the prospect from the Pleasure Gardens then allowed a view of the fairly new Parish Church, but other buildings now obstruct it.

Sutton Park is surrounded on all sides by suburbia. Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.