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This tranquil scene shows the Gothic-style brick Methodist church of 1878, beyond creeper-clad number 37 in the foreground.

Gently winds the lane down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of whitewashed cottages and bright spring flowers.

Visitors came in increasing numbers after the Snowdon Mountain Railway opened in 1896, which provided easy access to the summit for hundreds of holidaymakers.

This chapter starts in the county town of Northampton – in its superb and large market square.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

This is a well-kept Garden of Remembrance in the centre of this large village; next door is the County Library.

The tower of St James' Church is still the original Spilsby greenstone, but the rest of the church has been faced with the stronger limestone, hence the different colour.

An excellent view of a working village.

This last can be seen seventy years later in the picture of the railway station (W81011).

This was the older of Whitby's two shopping streets. Puckrin's chemist's shop (the white building on the right) stood for a further forty years.

In 1824 the Royal Manchester Institution was hoping to move into a new headquarters in Mosley Street, and in the accepted practice of the day invited architects to submit their ideas by means of open competition

As well as being in the West Riding, Saddleworth was also in the wapentake of Agbrigg. Wapentake literally means 'show of weapons', and was the old Danish way of voting.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town. The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.

Newton Poppleford is a good base for exploring the Vale of the Otter, with footpath, bridleways and ancient green lanes heading out to all points of the compass.

We are further eastwards on Clifton Street, and the majority of people are shopping on the sunny side. On the right of the picture is the Talbot Hotel.

He wrote most of his 26-volume 'Anglicae Historiae' while in this house. This 'History of England' became compulsory reading in all schools under Elizabeth I.

The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners. By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks.

The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph.

Rye sits huddled around a small hill, on the top of which stands St Mary's Church with its distinctive squat Norman tower.

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

By the mid-19th century visitors demanded more in the way of leisure activities and amusement.

In the distance is the ruined McDougall fortress of Dunollie Castle, which overlooks the Firth of Lorne.

The Deanery on the left and the terrace on the right of the north side of Lower Close both incorporate much medieval work. The terrace was converted from the priory granaries.

Wool workers' cottages of this kind traditionally had stable-style front doors. The top half was left open so that merchants could look in and inspect the quality of the work.