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As with so many other towns in the area, it was the Leeds and Liverpool canal which brought about the growth of Burnley, and there is a large piece of that canal history alive and well at the

In 1964 this beautiful and historic bridge, built in 1617, finally bent to the increase of traffic and was demolished and replaced with a modern concrete structure.

A little to the west of here, near the weir, is the old mill, also now luxury houses.

Opened in 1823, the Bude Canal served a large area of north Cornwall. The canal itself extended some 35 miles inland, though by the time this picture was taken much of it had already closed.

On the left of this scene we see R H and J Follett, a grocer's, and then Messrs Brown - notice the man in the plus-fours with his two dogs, and the window cleaner up the ladder.

W Heath Robinson, whose son was a monk at the abbey, painted a cartoon of the restoration work.

However, if the visitor looks at the upper storeys or, if opportunity presents itself, at the rear elevation of the buildings, they give the clues to their origins.

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

Girls or boys? East side or west side? Twins or not? After the Whitby Gazette was kind enough to publish their picture, we received help from several sources.

The Midland Bank is prominent on the left, facing the National Westminster and Barclays, which was a few steps from Lloyds' palatial building opposite the Royal Hotel.

As late as 1870, enclosure meadowland and hawthorn hedges stretched away from Wigston, but the ensuing period up to 1900 was to see a trebling of population figures as hosiers and boot and shoe manufacturers

The lower buildings on the right were demolished during the building of the Great Central Railway in the late 1890s.

Here we see the sturdy porticoed front of Botley's famous Market Hall, built in 1848.

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

The aptly named Woodstock Gate, one of the main entrances to Blenheim Palace, lies just around the corner.

At this time there is a mix of motor and horse-drawn conveyances for the tripper.

St Mary's dates from the 15th century, and stands on the site of an earlier Knights Templar house.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Included in this view (taken from the top of what is known as the Broomfields) is the old Willesborough Hospital.

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.