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Close to the Court House, an Elizabethan manor, lies this tranquil pond, constructed to hold water for a mill.

Two miles from Clitheroe, Chatburn is well sheltered by a high ridge and a wealth of trees.

Situated at the top of Mill Street, Tilly's advertised '…luncheons, teas and light refreshments, everything homemade.'

Known as Elmer's mill, it looks as if it was in reasonably good shape when this photograph was taken. However, it was abandoned in 1912 and finally fell down in 1944.

Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.

In the grounds are Knepp Mill Pond, the largest lake in Sussex, and the remains of William de Braose's castle.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

In the past it had regular cattle markets and cheese markets, a mill, tanneries and a brewery, but these have now all gone.

This tranquil pool was dammed to supply water for a mill sited just behind the photographer.

Originally, the fire station was at the southern end of Mill Street, next to the Salvation Army Hall. By 1955 a new station had been built on the corner of Brooke Road and South Street.

Many of the people who worked in the mills or mines lived in dilapidated cottages hidden behind the imposing three-storey buildings on the main street.

Mills were built to harness the abundant local water supplies, but when steam power took over from water power, Sutton's industrial life waned; today it is mainly residential.

Apart from milling, they were used to drain the fens and broads; their numbers dropped when fuel-powered engines were introduced.

On the skyline are several maltings, shipyards, Buss's Dock and the tide mill. The bandstand has been rebuilt with a brick base, and all the shelters are now of brick.

The causeway encloses water for Eling Tide Mill, visible in the distance. This worked until 1941, and was restored and opened as a museum in 1980.

Beyond the hotel building is Day's Mill, with St George's church a little back to the left. The cottage in the foreground shows an unusual method of loft ventilation.

Apart from the Catholic church complex on the ridge to the left, virtually all the buildings seen here, including Badbrook Mill, have gone, mostly around 1960, when Merrywalks, left, was widened.

The mill buildings are still in use (compare this view with the last one). The toll bridge (cars currently 30p) is just out of picture to the left; indeed, the weir goes beneath its northern arches.

Much of the south side of the main street beyond the village shop and the junction with Mill Lane is now occupied by a private school, Monkton Combe School.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

Built in 1580 by the Nottage family, this was originally a fulling mill, though it was being used for corn by the 19th century.

The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

Recent road schemes have meant that the mill-workers' cottages on the right have been demolished to make way for a new roundabout, with a modern block of flats instead.

The tall chimney rises from Park Mill, whose mules still operated in the early 1980s. Buildings in the foreground now house the fascinating Helmshore Textile Museum.