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Behind it can be seen the roof of the Canal Company's workshop, now occupied by British Waterways, who maintain the canal today. The cottage now houses a tea room.

This picture evokes a different world and a very different Crawley from today's seething New Town of more than 60,000 people.

One of Askrigg's main industries was clockmaking, and it is said that more timepieces were made here than anywhere else in the North Riding.

Although guests were not obliged to take any of the water treatments offered, they were expected to refrain from drinking alcohol and had to take their meals together at prescribed hours.

Crawshay, like Francis Frith, was an early devotee of photography.

The canal by the side of the factory was built to serve all the local industries and factories.

This view is looking north-westwards from the junction with North Allington, at the bottom end of South Street.

The lodgings of the Military Knights, built by Queen Mary in the 16th century, are on the right. The union flag is flying on the mast above the Round Tower.

picture shows a tiny emaciated donkey pulling a cart selling strawberries.We associate this exotic and scarce fruit with jollity and celebration, but this trader and her son radiate only a sense of

After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

With the camera a relatively unknown instrument in those days, the photographer invariably attracted a gaggle of village children as he went to work.

On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

About two miles west of Hailsham is Upper Dicker, which has a Gothic-style church. Standing on a hill at a crossroads is the unusual house named The Dicker, built in 1908 for Horatio Bottomley MP.

From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.

This fine gabled building with huge chimneys is situated on the edge of the town, set in typical English parkland with lakes and rare trees.

The Queen's Head Hotel, now shops, used to stand just across Matlock Bridge (from where this photograph was taken) on the way south towards Derby.

It incorporates part of the 15th-century Prior Overton's Tower. Note the ornate, ball-topped entrance gate columns, and the earlier priory remains incorporated into the garden walls.

Behind the signpost directing travellers to Dorking and Guildford is the lych gate leading to the churchyard of the small Norman church with its shingled spire.

On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera.

The famous evangelist the Rev C H Spurgeon, who visited Mullion in 1872, was obviously impressed by the locals: 'If I were asked to select the Cornish parish which contains the greatest number of intelligent

The people to the right are enjoying a walk along the miner's route of the Stepaside line, which transported anthracite from the Stepaside area via Wiseman's Bridge, first by horse-drawn

Pandering to the needs of motorists, the first Railway Inn was pulled down in the 1930s to make way for a larger establishment.

The narrow and winding Main Street seen here is typical of most White Peak villages, and is definitely not built for modern traffic.