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The building of Scarborough Castle began around 1135. The castle was the scene of the first action by the barons against Edward II.

Perched on its cliff overlooking the rivers Teme and Corve, Ludlow was built in a strategic location on the Welsh borders.

Following the building of St Anne's, Ansdell and Fairhaven were slower to develop, remaining an area of woodland and sandhills.

This is a very busy part of the village, which is not surprising - it was possible to purchase so many essential and varied items here.

Three years after William Cobbett rode through this stretch of countryside in August 1823, the Dale family came to Aldhurst Farm.

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

The church of St Mary dominates the surrounding area. The town originally developed because of the local weavers, and also as a market town.

Two cars enter the Ewell Road from the main village crossroads watched by a policeman on point duty at the foot of Station Road (later renamed Station Way).

A lady walks briskly across Station Way towards Cheam Court and the local branch of Teekoff, which had a sister establishment in the Cheam Road at Sutton.

A large crowd is gathered on the beach in the centre of this photograph, possibly to watch 'Uncle Mac and his Minstrels.'

The town of St Helens derives its name from the early chapel dedicated to the saint.

of accommodation, eating haute cuisine food and drinking the very finest of wines.

It was from here that some of the biggest smack and ketch-rigged trawlers sailed to fish grounds ranging from the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Western Approaches.

The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

Originally a wooden Saxon fortress built on two islands in a natural moat formed by the river Len, it was transformed into a solid stone castle at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'.

Following the armistice in 1918, war memorials were erected by many parishes throughout the British Isles, either close to the church, or in a public place, as a symbol of a shared grief,

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.

It is possible that one of them lay on the site of Ware Mill, later part of the factory of Allen & Hanbury.

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek some eight miles west-south-west of Swansea.

The 15th-century building in the foreground has had a variety of uses, including that of a public house named The Cricketers which ran from the mid 19th century until its closure in 1909.