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Here we see an image of disappearing Britain: the village pond, many of which have been removed since the time of this photograph, with a backdrop of cottages.

The former seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, Worsley Old Hall dates from the 16th century. It was here that James Brindley lived while working on the Bridgewater Canal.

In Anglo-Saxon times a church dedicated to St Werburgh stood on part of the site now occupied by the cathedral. St Werburgh was a daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia.

The village stands at the foot of the Hog's Back close to Aldershot, but it is actually in the parish of Guildford.

The gabled row of houses leads towards a railway bridge with St Andrew`s Church beyond.

Renowned as one of the finest parks in the north of England, Queens Park was given to the town by the London and North Western Railway Company to commemorate fifty years of the railway in the town.

White Nancy is a tower situated on the ridge to the south of the town, and is said to have been built by a member of the Gaskell family to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, and to be named after one

To the right of christ church is the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Light. The architect was F W Tasker and the church was opened on 15 October 1903.

An industrial town situated at the joining of the river Dar and river Cynon. At the beginning of the 19th Century Aberdare was a village within an agricultural district.

Erected nearly five years after the end of the Great War, this elegant memorial is built in the style of a medieval cross and stands close to the site of the original preaching cross, outside the cathedral

Binstead's original Norman church was built under the instructions of the abbot of nearby Quarr Abbey, who did not wish the peasants of Binstead to worship in his own chapels.

Lime Walk is part of the development of the Carrs, the old open pasture land that is still a great asset for the town.

Scenes like this, so typical of rural Kent, became rare after the mid-century decline of hop growing made hundreds of oast houses ripe for conversion.

Looking down the steep Main Street of Robin Hood's Bay, across the pantiled roofs of the picturesque village to the sweeping curve of the bay and the headland of Old Peak or South Cheek in the background

An industrial town situated at the joining of the river Dar and river Cynon. At the beginning of the 19th Century Aberdare was a village within an agricultural district.

This famous junction was once known as Regent Circus and developed out of Nash’s elegant modelling of Regent Street.

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as the result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.

A fine illustration of the commercialisation of Windsor Road – but the buildings on the extreme left and right are apparently still residential.

A strange tale relates how many of the ancient charters of the town were lost for ever.

A strange tale relates how many of the ancient charters of the town were lost for ever.

Surbiton Common was the scene of one of the last episodes of the English Civil War in 1648.

The founders of the modern Billingham Town Centre felt the need to introduce features which helped to take away the starkness of the new surroundings.

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from the one of the same name in Venice.