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Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

Outward bound from Ramsgate harbour, with a good view on the left of the West Pier and the lighthouse (note the masts of the sailing vessel moored in the harbour).The lighthouse was designed by John

The church was rebuilt in c930, and the nave of the present building is the oldest part still standing.

Boys stand guard over fishing nets at West Looe. Across the harbour is Buller Quay at East Looe, where three railway trucks can be seen.

The largest town in south-west Northamptonshire, Brackley had a market charter since before 1217, its wealth having come from wool.

Blackfriars Bridge was completed in 1869, but it was widened to its present width by extending the west side in 1910.

The main burden of contemporary criticism lay with the Cathedral's West Front.

The club subsequently moved to West Hoe and, in the 1980s, to Queen Anne's Battery. The doors above the steps on the right were for many years used by the Leander Swimming Club.

Looking west from Bathampton Down, past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with

A superb view of the Chain Pier from the west, showing clearly the pier head, which was designed primarily as a landing-stage for cross-channel traffic; it opened in 1823.

This view looks west from the Market Place into Station Street.

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

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 famous Dublin landmark is situated on the north bank of the Liffey, a little to the west of the centre. It was designed by James Gandon, and built between 1785-1802.

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.

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

The river upstream from Kingston Bridge was largely free from commercial traffic, and consequently safer for yachtsmen.

Only the medieval west tower and the Victorian south porch survived. The church was rebuilt by Bernard Miller, who made no attempt to recreate the style of the original.

Long Street, which was once known as West Street, has been the main artery of Tetbury since at least the 16th century.

Wells was a port long before it became a tourist town, as the functional harbour and large warehouses make clear.

The Bronte industry, founded in this pretty, cobble-streeted West Yorkshire town after the famous literary family made the Parsonage their home in 1820, was already well under way, if this 1950s photograph

As we approach Richmond, this view from the west bank looks towards the Petersham Road across to the former Messum's Boatyard.

Whitwell stands at the entrance to the Duke of Portland's Welbeck Abbey, and it is in the heart of north-east Derbyshire's former coal mining country.