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The statue in the centre of the Square is the town's war memorial – Crewe was a new industrial town with a relatively youthful population, so that many of the town's men were called up to serve in both

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

The most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul’s was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

In the 1460s, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, set about remodelling Raglan in the contemporary French style as a Yorkist fortress during the Wars of the Roses. The tower keep had its own moat.

The Cathedral c1875 Soaring above the surrounding rooftops, the spires of the Cathedral dominate the city in this view taken from the tower of the West Gate.

Much of Colwall developed in late Victorian times as a result of the building of the railway line and its station.

With 2,500 acres of heathland, ancient woodland and wetland, Sutton Park constitutes the finest countryside in the county.

This was once the site of Helston Castle, built in the 13th century by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall.

It is three years after World War I, and a packet of ten Wills cigarettes can be bought in this tobacconists for 3d (three old pence).

Contemporary reports of Bishop Hooper's execution refer to his tongue sticking out of his mouth after his forty-five minutes of agony, as if he was still trying to speak just one last word.

The bank on the left of this photograph became an insurance office, and the adjoining dental surgery is also the premises of an insurance company.

The object of Eights Week is for each crew to move up one place in a complex table of positions maintained from year to year.

The parish church lies east of the Almshouses, which can be seen beyond the chancel.

The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.

This crowded region south of the river was once the heart of London cockney life.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul's was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

Much of the prosperity of the town derived from the nearby Greenfield Valley.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

For a few years around the turn of the 20th century, Worplesdon's cricket pitch was at the foot of Rickford Hill on the edge of the common.

Note the old Cyclists Touring Club seal of approval carried above the front entrance.