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This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

Children at play in the village of Chilworth, outside Southampton.

Here we see the Pierhead Building, the head offices of the Bute Docks Company, later to be known as the Cardiff Railway Company.

No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.

East of Gainsborough the Market Rasen road climbs the Lincoln Cliff, the limestone ridge which runs due north from Lincoln at about two hundred feet above sea level.

Olton Boulevard East is a long, wide road of mostly municipal housing, linking Warwick Road with Shaftmoor Lane.

Opposite was Booths the grocer's, part of a chain of shops, who ran a popular café upstairs.

Christchurch was built by Edmund Withypoll in 1548-50, of red brick, on the site of Holy Trinity Priory. In 1893 the house and park were offered for sale.

This is taken from the 'tongues' in the middle of the River Brett, adjacent to the two 18th-century hump-backed bridges. The Peacock is early 15th-century.

This compact little village in a hollow south of the Hog's Back is benignly watched over by St Lawrence's Church, with its wooden 14th-century south porch.

These demure Victorian villas, constructed to house commuting City workers, are outwardly unchanged, although now augmented by two more modern houses on the right-hand side of the picture.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

The houses on Pennine View are from a different era to the ones we saw in D210004, and catering for more modern workers.

The old road follows the line of the ridge and the beach was once occasionally used to load coal onto boats at high tide from the nearby Trefân Cliff Colliery.

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

Beyond the nave and the crossing is the medieval choir and sanctuary, the oldest part of the church, dating from the 12th to the 14th century. It is crowned by an 18th-century vaulted ceiling.

When digging foundations for the footings on the far side of the railway bridge the Victorian engineers discovered the remains of a Saxon fortification built in AD 915 by Queen Ethelfleda

It's amazing to think that Halton is now the centre of the modern town once more; history has turned full circle.

The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

The buildings all survive but the whole view has changed considerably with, believe it or not, a much narrower road.

Looking at their family tree, one can see how the Gregs were connected to many other important inventors and industrialists of the time, including Josiah Wedgwood and the Darbies of Coalbrookdale

Off the Lizard, fearsome rocks are a constant reminder of why a lifeboat station was established in 1859 in the very exposed Polpeor Cove right under the most southerly point in England

It has been damaged on a number of occasions by passing lorries. The 4ft-high figure of the blacksmith then has to be repaired by a firm that makes traditional merry-go- rounds.

The main Huddersfield to Manchester railway makes its way along the steep side of the valley, and it has to cross many side valleys.