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When it opened in 1860, it was 1,200 yards long and had a landing stage where steamers from the Isle of Man, North Wales, and several west-coast ports made scheduled stops during the season.

The Cathedral c1875 Soaring above the surrounding rooftops, the spires of the Cathedral dominate the city in this view taken from the tower of the West Gate.

The photographer is standing on the west bank looking across to the original 1823 grandstand on the edge of Pitchcroft.

South-east of Abingdon, on the A415 and a mile west of the Culham Science Centre, the former Culham College is a large and austere Victorian Gothic building based on an Oxford collegiate layout with a

A large extension to the hotel was needed to cope with the massive influx of tourists that increasing holiday allowances and the railways had created. The original building is to the left.

St Giles' Church is over 800 years old and accepted as one of the most attractive in England.

Swinton and Pendlebury lie to the north-west of Salford. St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

In this view the trees are more mature and obscure the long facades of this eleven hundred foot long road.

This view shows Gilbert Scott's west front from beyond the Square. This is a church that mingles ancient and modern perfectly.

Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west. A

This crossroads west of the village of Calver is known as Calver Sough - a sough (pronounced “suff”) being a drainage tunnel designed to take water out of lead mines.

The priory was razed to the ground during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and these ruins were discovered in 1886 during the construction of the London and South West Railway.

The priory was razed to the ground during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and these ruins were discovered in 1886 during the construction of the London and South West Railway.

The late-15th century tower of Holy Trinity church is one of the finest in Cornwall; its west side has carved figures depicting the Trinity, the Annunciation and the Resurrection.

Stone was on the North Staffordshire line from Stoke, which linked with the London & North Western at Colwick West Junction.

In 1893 the natural lake of Haweswater nestled peacefully in the unspoilt and beautiful valley of Mardale. At this time the road to Mardale village ran along the west side of the lake.

In 1965 the birds still sang in the Town Hall gardens, and although relatively noisy, it was an extremely pleasant place to sit and mull over the fortunes of the day.

The street rigidly defined the neighbourhoods of rich and poor. To the west were the homes of society families and to the east a poor and wretched neighbourhood, part of which became Soho.

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

when railway engineers were convinced of the impossibility of constructing a rail link over Shap, Fleetwood was conceived in the 1830s to link trains from London with steamers to Glasgow and

We are looking west from the Rectory Road corner. The shops on the left were sacrificed when the new A13 cut across Pitsea in the early 1970s.

Warnham parish lies mainly on Wealden clay about 2 miles north-west of Horsham.

We are looking west from the Rectory Road corner. The shops on the left were sacrificed when the new A13 cut across Pitsea in the early 1970s.

This view looks west along Newbridge Road with its terraces of neat villas. These all survive, albeit now with concrete roof tiles.