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This view is eastwards from Tudor Cottage and Mill Street; the trees are in Ilsington House grounds and beside the parish church (right- hand background).

Mills and rows of cheap housing were swept away during the development of Marlowes in the new town of Hemel Hempstead.

Luss, on the shores of Loch Lomond, had a thriving cotton mill and slate quarries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Laura described busy mill days: 'We wove miles of Chatburn checks … it was dobby weaving, which went into turbans out East and tea towels out at Colne!'

This is an attractive village ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

It was built by Sir Samuel Marling, whose woollen cloth mill is visible in the valley beyond. The monument to the left of the church came from the 1851 Great Exhibition.

On the right is the old mill house, now converted into flats. Left centre, just beyond the van, is a glimpse of the Prince of Wales public house.

The maltings here at Pin Mill are a reminder of the days when grain was loaded into the barges en route for Ipswich.

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

The plant was cut when in flower, and crushed in mills to extract its oils for the perfume industry - hence the name 'Mitcham Lavender'.

The body of the church is fairly run-of-the-mill with its four-bay nave arcade, but it does house some 19th-century stained glass of interest.

The stone cottages built for mill workers look picturesque, but in days gone by conditions were by no means luxurious.

The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill.

Industries attracted to the harbour site included the tall flour mill, while timber has been imported at the quay on the right.

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

The mills, houses and chimney have all gone.

To the right of the island, the River Kensey is drawn off into a leat for the cloth mills and the tannery.

The four-storey cotton and worsted mill in the background of this photograph has long been demolished.

From the south-west side we glimpse Bromham Mill and its leet beyond, now a restored and working watermill.

What was left of the Priory was severely damaged in 1781 when a Faversham gunpowder mill exploded.

Water flows through the village from Semerwater 2 miles away, via the country's shortest river, the Bain. Here, next to the Ure, are mill cottages.

Having been bombed out of their works at Mitcham, Surrey, A C Cossor Ltd were relocated to Chadderton; they were housed in the old Wren Mill which had been converted into a government Shadow factory.

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.