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This was the thatched lodge gate from the village street to the Hall. It dates from the 1840s, when Sir Henry Bunbury created the park around the Hall.

The market cross dates from 1500, and was intended to be a copy of the one at Cambridge. To the right is the former Market Toll House, adjoining the British School of 1861.

This early photograph of Castleton at the head of the Hope Valley shows the intricate network of drystone walls which surrounds the village.

A fascinating picture of a suburban street. On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

Almost at the end of the Lleyn Peninsula, this small village opens out onto the beach and Cardigan Bay. Here the few visitors that could make their way here enjoy a lazy day on the beach.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

Today, as in 1906, Tintagel makes a good living from the tourist, although now the currency in question is as likely to be the dollar or the yen as pounds sterling.

The old part of the Roebuck Hotel lies to the left of the buildings.

This is the longest beach in Pembrokeshire (two miles end to end), lying below a shingle storm ridge.

As we look north towards Market Square, Hutchinson's tobacconist shop is at the corner of Langton Street.

This is a comparatively modern scene in the High Street, showing two-way traffic and a variety of cars.

Just near the boating lake is the old bandstand, now with only its base - the upper structure fell into disrepair and was removed.

At the east end of the nave aisle and on each side of the chancel arch are large brass posts with decorated candle holders, five in all.

Here we see the marriage of bathing machines and fishing boats under the imposing gaze of the Grand Hotel.

There is a substantial garage here with two pumps (right), although at this time there were usually only one or two car owners in each street, and not surprisingly few cars are shown.

The bronze statue shows Griffith Rhys Jones (Caradog) conducting the South Wales Choral Union to victory at Crystal Palace in 1872 and 1873.

The stones for the Gorsedd Circle were quarried at the Trefil Quarry.

The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

Looking at their family tree, one can see how the Gregs were connected to many other important inventors and industrialists of the time, including Josiah Wedgwood and the Darbies of Coalbrookdale

Off the Lizard, fearsome rocks are a constant reminder of why a lifeboat station was established in 1859 in the very exposed Polpeor Cove right under the most southerly point in England

Tideford is at the very head of the tidal creek of the River Tiddy; this lane leads down to the water, with the woodlands of the St Germans estate on the far side.

Many of the shops in this photograph have gone, not surprisingly. Bendy's Stores is no longer there, nor is Bishops Cycles and Motorcycles on the right.

The main Huddersfield to Manchester railway makes its way along the steep side of the valley, and it has to cross many side valleys.