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The name Eccles comes from 'ecclesia', and means 'the place of the church', so it is no surprise that its central street is called Church Street.

In 1765 Thomas had been a member of a delegation sent by the Society of Merchant Venturers, of which he later became Master, to deliver a petition to Parliament against the renewal of the Sugar Act.

Prior to this, the Old Town Hall (1780), the offices of The Hampshire Post and Pince's School obscured the view of St Peter's from the Square. In 1898 these buildings were pulled down.

A good view of the town centre, the castle centre-stage and the watchtower of the new prison building behind it.

At the bottom of West Street lies the 15th-century Spread Eagle Hotel, one of the most famous inns in Sussex.

Bridport remains the capital of west Dorset, attracting weekly shoppers from a number of local villages.

The industrial and commercial parts of the town co-existed in a very confined space. The mill chimneys were an ever-present reminder of the source of the family's wagepacket.

The Devil’s Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

With blissful symmetry the horizon here is occupied by Cardiff Castle - the iconic home of the Bute family, facilitators of the modern city and much of its wealth.

Punting on the river in pre-war days. Near here is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

Here we have a splendidly detailed view of Godalming's High Street towards the end of the Victorian era.

The death of Henry I in 1135 saw England torn apart by civil war.

Until the 1880s, Dunchurch was of far greater significance than Rugby itself.

Once surrounded by the deer-haunted woods and heaths of Cranborne Chase, Alderholt has kept much of its original character, despite some new houses and a church of little antiquity; the latter is a building

Elsecar was one of the many collieries which formerly existed in the South Yorkshire coalfield around the village of Hoyland.

Grimspound, a few miles north of the village of Widecombe, is one of the finest examples of a Bronze Age village in Europe. It lies half a mile off the road to the right.

Oxford's superb Town Hall building dominates this picture of the city centre. At the bottom of the photograph is Queen Street, named after Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

As an important cathedral city, Winchester established an important tradition of tending the sick, probably from the days when pilgrims came to the shrine of St Swithun in search of miraculous cures

The bridge in the foreground of this photograph leads over the River Leven to a car park designated for the use of patrons of Suggitts ice cream parlour, something of an institution in

This sought-after village grew up at the head of Mylor Creek.

By building a new castle at Carlisle, William Rufus was cutting what was left of ancient Cumbria in two.

The Earl of Cornwall built stew (fish) ponds on the western boundary of his estate, and fish was an important part of the medieval diet.

This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.