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By the 1950s, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity and one of the most prosperous towns in England, as this view of the town centre shows.

A bust of Minerva sits proudly atop the grand Hayes façade of the library extension, probably pictured at the time of its opening in 1896.

The building of a lavish pavilion at the end of this pier motivated the Central Pier to build a theatre at the end of their pier.

In the years following the end of the second world war, John Harker Ltd built several estuarine tankers on the foreshore at Sharpness. One of them might be in the background of this picture.

The parish church stands on the hill. Illingworth was at the time of this photograph a village on the edge of the Pennines north of Halifax, but is now a suburb of the city.

An iron works was opened in 1837, but it was the discovery two years later of ironstone deposits at nearby Shotley Bridge, and the opening of coal pits during the 1840s, that sparked off the town's growth

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

East of Lincoln, Wragby is a market town on the Horncastle and Skegness road which is very busy at weekends and in summer.

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere. This narrow and historic hump-backed bridge crosses the Leven below Windermere.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

This featureless wave of suburbia grew up in the 1930s to cover the fields between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Pinner.

The beautiful River Avon penetrates to the very heart of England at Shakespeare's Stratford.

Laleham was a tiny village when Dr Thomas Arnold, soon to be the formidable headmaster of Rugby School, came to live here in Regency times.

A little north of the High Street Junction, off Abingdon Road, is Gravel Lane, which has a number of farm buildings on each side at its west end.

Slaidburn nestles in a hollow with higher ground around it.As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

The south side of West Allington, looking westwards from the White Lion Hotel to the Old Inn. Both pubs had landladies.

A unit of the Majestic class of nine battleships completed between 1895 and 1898 at a cost of approximately £1 million each.

Encouraged by the changing political scene at both national and local levels, especially after the extension of the vote in 1918 and the rise of the Labour Party, Carlisle council found itself

There are plenty of spectators on the pier to watch the arrival at Hull of the Eclipse class cruiser HMS 'Dido'.

The Priory, and what is left of the Priory church, has an ancient history. Two nuns from here were shipwrecked at Reculver on their way to Minster in Thanet.

Nothing could more illustrate the pace of change than this photograph of the Horse Fair in 1923. Not only is the event a distant memory, but there have been wholesale changes to the area.

Cleanliness in the 12th and 13th centuries was certainly next to Godliness. The Cistercians, like the Knights Templar, were not noted for their standards of personal hygiene and rarely washed.

We are looking at West Bank and the Victoria Promenade. This area had been regarded as a holiday resort, and had been known as Wood-end 150 years before.

The fells sheltering this village, most of which lies at the foot of this steep main street, rise to 1,000ft. The rest of the village follows the high road above the River Ribble.