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This view looks downstream from the footbridge onto Ray Mill Island. A smart houseboat is towed out by a steam launch; relatively few boats are out.

The windmill tower, here derelict, belonged to Edlesborough Mills, which also had a water-wheel powered by the stream. The windmill tower is now restored and part of a house.

Within its bounds a marshland drainage mill was built many years ago, its smooth, conical form combining curiously with the jagged broken masonry of the old gatehouse.

The Bollin once powered a silk mill here, whose buildings later became a laundry that boasted that it returned everything except the dirt.

Here we see the brick tower mill, with a replacement roof in place of a cap, in a stripped-down and derelict condition. The photograph was taken from a nearby watermill site.

The photographer is positioned on the south-east corner of Mill Meadows Island looking north to Boatslide Weir Bridge with its rustic-style balustrades.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.

In this view the photographer is looking north from the 'mainland' bank to the bridge, Boatslide Weir Bridge, which links Mill Meadows Island with Longholme.

An ancient market town, Ormskirk was an important centre for the linen trade during the 16th century, whilst in the late 18th and early 19th centuries there were silk mills in the area.

The mill stands on the northern edge of town, with St Mary's graveyard visible beyond; it dates from Norman times, and by the Middle Ages was used for fulling cloth.

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

Thornton Dale lies 2 miles east of Pickering. This much-photographed cottage stands alongside the beck, in which trout can still be seen. In the village are Lady Lumley's Almshouses.

The River Eye flows through the village; there has been a mill here since before the Norman Conquest, though the present building with the tall chimney shown here dates from around 1800.

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

The mock-timber building on the left is the Mill Inn. Beyond it are Moot House, Market Cross Place and the White Lion.

The profits from his Sunnybank Mill at Helmshore were lavished on house building in St Anne's.

The road then led down to Harlow Mill on the Stort and the bridge into Hertfordshire.

Within its bounds a marshland drainage mill was built many years ago, its smooth, conical form combining curiously with the jagged broken masonry of the old gatehouse.

The windmill, which still stands on the summit of Bidston Hill, was built as a flour mill in 1800 and functioned as such until 1875.

Like Macclesfield and many other small towns around, Wilmslow was to develop enormously in the 18th century with the introduction of industries linked to local silk and cotton mills.

In the background, the building in front of the mill chimney is part of the Hammerton Street central stores of the Burnley Equitable Co-operative and Industrial Society.

The title of this photograph refers to the old tin smelting mill just upstream, which used water power to drive the furnace bellows.

West of the town centre, Mill Street climbs uphill to West Street and remains little altered since the 1950s, although the bus stop has gone.

This compact village is situated on the main coast road north of Aberystwyth; it grew up to serve the workers of the nearby lead mines and woollen mills.