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All the hustle and bustle of Edwardian life is here in this photograph.

The word Shambles derives from 'shamel', meaning benches or stalls.

It is a quiet day in Tadcaster's High Street as a cyclist pedals unconcernedly down the middle of the road.

The overhanging storeys were a feature of town architecture, which came into use some time in the late 13th or early 14th centuries.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

You could hardly travel further from London than here, but Williams the Padstow newsagent is displaying the very latest penny dreadfuls.

Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.

That finished when the farm closed, but the Darbys are still around - Graham Darby is currently licensee of The Gate Hangs Well on High Park Avenue.

Fairfax Place was built in the 1880s, replacing some 16th-century properties. Oldreive Brothers (left) were highly successful butchers, supplying the 'Britannia' and visiting ships.

The impressive façade of Oakley's Stores simply oozes prosperity as it faces the larger department store premises across Fleet Road.

The Marble Hall forms a magnificent approach to the spectacularly ornate Assembly Room.

The advent of the motor carriage did not prevent the hotel advertising the stables at the back of this famous coaching hotel.

On the right, the imposing 18th-century brick frontage of Lloyd's Bank, with its stone pediment and columned entrance, faces the small shops across the road.

In this later image, suits and towels hired by male bath- ers hang out to dry. The top of the sea wall provides additional seating and a pagoda shelter adorns the prom- enade.

Weatherboarding - as seen on the inn - and tile-hanging are typical of this area of Sussex. W J Ballard's forge is in the centre of the picture.

The Swan Inn, pictured on the right of this photograph, is still here today.

This photograph looks uphill towards the great cliff of Carreg Du, which looms over the town's streets.

The left- hand ground-floor window now matches its fellow, three dormers have replaced the original two, the end elevation has plasterwork instead of tile-hanging, a larger window and more

Her body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.

The pub is called the Old Bush Inn. This is an old name for a pub; it dates back to times when the brewer would hang a bit of a bush over the front door to advertise that a new brew was ready.

The hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', married a man who claimed to be

In the middle is the hanging sign for the Three Horse Shoes, which closed about 1968.

The mill was powered by four patent shuttered sails, and winding was controlled by hand with an endless chain gear hanging from the rear of the cap down to the staging. Only the brick base survives.

The Three Salmons Hotel, which stands on the A471 to Abergavenny, looks much the same today, except that it has now expanded to occupy the premises across the road.