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The church was designed by John Harper, the son of the Dunkenhalgh land agent, and was consecrated in October 1840 by the Bishop of Chester.

The symmetry and lack of individuality in the houses to the right of the photograph point to this being a modern 20th-century housing estate.

It all looks very quiet along Rye Ground Lane, quiet enough for a group of locals to stand chatting in the middle of the road.

This is a dramatic example of a stratified rock formation apparently teetering on the edge of a precipice and looking out over the valley beyond.

The local school is at the heart of many an English community, being used for many local occasions after the end of the school day.

This was the site of the ancient gateway into Nottingham from the west until 1743.

Brockenhurst is a railway junction well-known to travellers to Southampton, Bournemouth, Lymington and the Isle of Wight.

A tram travels along the main street of Parkstone nearly a century ago.

Weymouth owed its success to the patronage of George III.

A good introduction to Dorset would be to follow the course of the River Piddle from its source to the sea, passing through some delightful villages along the way.

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

Red Lion Square takes its name from the famous old inn on the left of this photograph.

At Furnace, a small town hugging the western shores of Loch Fyne, iron-smelting works were established in the early 19th century.

Early inhabitants of the High Street faced a range of fierce punishments if they transgressed the law, including flogging, mutilation and death by hanging.

By 1921 commerce has taken over, but few of the buildings shown survive today.

It is accessed via Reservoir Road, off Eastern Avenue. It now houses the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and affords massive views of the city and, of course, the cathedral.

The building on the left in view 46642, left, is the Hermitage, home of Frederick Seebohm; very little of it still remains. Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.

Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

At the southern end of the Close is Harnham Gate, one of the three gates that served the cathedral; it is contemporary with the original 14th-century cathedral wall.

This view was taken from King's Square.The street was originally part of the Roman city's main road, or Via Principalis.

The Grosvenor Hotel, seen here on the right, used to house a famous piece of Victorian furniture, the Chevy Chase Sideboard.

It is an open octagon with pillars supporting the domed roof, which displays the arms of England, France and the two local Members of Parliament who donated it.

The Lancaster Banking Company on the right was a forerunner of the District Bank, which became part of the National Westminster.