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Around this time the former classics teacher of the town's high school, Miss Richmal Crompton, was famed for being the author of the Just William books.

The name of this Sussex town was mentioned in a Saxon charter, though for some reason it is not referred to in the Domesday Book.

This picturesque village featured in Anna Lea Merritt's book 'A Hamlet in Old Hampshire', published in 1902, describing 19th-century village life.

One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.

The young James Cook was sent by his father to Staithes from Great Ayton to serve an apprentice­ship to a grocer and haberdasher, Mr Sanderson.

The parish of Boddington is recorded in the Domesday Book as Botendon.

Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.

Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows. On the right of the pier are two of the town's hotels, The Antwerp and The Clarendon.

Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.

Captain James Cook was employed here as a grocer's apprentice before he made his name as the discoverer of Australia.

The writer's aunt was for some years resident in Beech Cottage as Smith's cook-housekeeper.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

There have been relatively few changes here, one of the best being that the Imperial Café is now a second hand bookshop called Castle Hill Books.

elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.To the right of it is the entrance to Botley Mills, an 18th-century mill complex, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

The views in this book concentrate on this mostly red brick and slate element of the town's architectural history.

Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows. On the right of the pier are two of the town's hotels, The Antwerp and The Clarendon.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

This street's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'cepin', meaning a 'place of trade', and here its shops include opticians, tobacconists, dry cleaners, book and toy shops and the Crusty Loaf bakers with its

Mortons were selling 'K' shoes and next door is now the home of One Tree Books. The suspended electric street light was one of Petersfield's first.

Sherborne is a charming town of book and antique shops, an essential stop in any exploration of Dorset.

The Tramways Act of 1870 gave powers to Bristol Corporation to take over the system at book price in 1915, or at any seventh year thereafter.

Mayer Hall commemorates the life and works of Joseph Mayer, the 19th-century antiquary and book collector who made his home in Bebington.

The hand-written signboards are promoting the activities of the Parkinson's Motor Tours booking office on the extreme right of the photograph.