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This photograph, looking towards The Nook, highlights the frustration of what could have been.

Glasgow boasts one of the world's finest municipal collections of art, now housed at Kelvingrove.

Church Lane has always been one of the most attractive parts of Stafford. Legionnaire's Disease The most notorious misfortune to affect 20th-century Stafford occurred in April 1985.

Here we have a general view of Halton and its castle from the west. The castle was built by the new Norman lord of the manor of Halton, Nigel Fitzwilliam, in around 1071.

The parish church of Clewer village, now part of Windsor, St Andrew’s retains its village character in its old traditional setting.

The Devil's Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Redevelopment of the Parade started c1870. Lime trees were planted in the 1880s to start the Avenue.

Two of Oxford's most famous colleges, Trinity and Balliol, stand on the left side of Broad Street, famous for its bookshops, among which is Blackwell's.

William Julian Courtauld, of Pennypot in Halstead, gave this fountain to the town of Braintree in memory of King George V.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

Here we see one of the unsung heroes of the Fleet.

The trees soften the box-like lines of the church, and the well-filled graveyard contains many monuments to the people of Accrington.

The impressive facade of the Hotel Metropole, with the Ship Hotel next door, faced the end of the Jetty to greet the thousands of holidaymakers who travelled down on the paddle steamers.

slope of the chalk country.

Maidstone was the head of navigation of the Medway for centuries. This was because the river's upper reaches were crowded with fisheries and mills that impeded navigation.

A quiet lane on the fringes of the town. Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

By building a new castle at Carlisle, William Rufus was cutting what was left of ancient Cumbria in two.

Construction of Hadleigh began in the 13th century, when Baron Hubert de Burgh was granted a licence to build.

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

The Town Gate, rebuilt many times over the life of the town, has had many uses; at one time tolls were collected here for all manner of goods and livestock.

Prestbury lies under the great bluff of Cleeve Hill, the destination of the tram, not the only mode of Edwardian travel in this photograph!

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

In the 12th century Friern Barnet belonged to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and the church, notwithstanding extensive mid 19th-century additions, dates from around that time.