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This classic view of England's largest lake was taken from the south end of Loughrigg. Ambleside town is round the corner to the left.

The ladies on the left are perusing the windows of the Borough Studio, the photographic and picture framing business of J L Brown.

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

The church of St Peter and St Paul, another of the marshland churches, is located by the side of the A158 main road to Skegness - during the summer this is a very busy road indeed.

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

The A50 bypass now divides the village from its castle, of which only the motte survives; the remainder was demolished in the later 12th century.

One of the focal points of the scattered village of Winster, the Brown Horse is a well-known local hostelry.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

The main east-west axis of the Albert Park estate is a tree-lined avenue, Park Road.

This is the main shopping area of the town; the architecture matches the period of rapid development after the railway arrived.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

By the 1950s the south front of Gisborough Hall was covered in Boston ivy; it still is today, and looks stunning in the autumn.

Pontefract Castle has played more than its fair share in some of the murkier episodes in England's history.

As early as January 1643 a pamphlet had been published titled 'Apparitions and Prodigious Noyses of War and Battels seen on Edge Hill near Keinton in Warwickshire'.

The 'Giant's Grave' in St Andrew's churchyard is a collection of two badly-weathered 10th-century cross-shafts and four Norse 'hogback' tombstones.

The enormous popularity of messing about on the River Thames during the Victorian era is demonstrated in this scene of the crowded lock at Molesey, just upstream from Hampton Court; it had been linked

This photograph shows the Victoria Hospital after the construction of Thornber Gardens, which were laid out in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, at the expense of the Mayor of Burnley

This set of 16 locks is part of the famous flight of 29 at Caen Hill.

The start of an adventure for this group of youngsters as they embark for a trip around the pier head? Or will they be transferring to a bigger craft moored further out?

The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

The 13th-century church of St Mary is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area. Mapson's Farm was built in 1796. At high tides the sea comes very close to the fronts of the buildings.

The Mansion Family Hotel appears on the extreme left of this picture, taken from the top of Exeter Lane across the Pleasure Gardens.

Even at this late date there were people advocating the 'dockisation' of the Avon, which would have resulted in the destruction of much of the natural beauty of the Gorge and the wholesale removal of Horseshoe

The Odeon cinema is typical of the super cinema style of architecture that came into vogue during the 1930s.