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Longridge stands about six miles from Preston on the Clitheroe Road. It still shows many of the signs of a country village, and is complete with its Market Square, as our photograph shows.

This view looks from in front of Exchequer Gate towards the Castle.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

The foundations of the 10th-century church of St Bertelin are laid out adjoining St Mary's behind the middle bench.

The houses on the right are Nos 18 and 20 Downs Road, formerly called Fanfare Road when built on the northern slopes of Farthing Down.

A fine panoramic view of east Coulsdon shows the extent of the development in the late 1920s and 1930s in Marlpit Lane, Bradmore Way and neighbouring roads.

This photograph must have been taken when the bridge was still very new, as it was opened in April of that same year (1923).

This view from Caversham Heights, north-west of the village centre, gives a good impression of the scale of Reading in the Edwardian period and before Caversham itself expanded far to its north and

The 'new' University College building which opened in October 1909 was the fruition of ten years' concerted fundraising aided by the Corporation's gift of five acres of building land.

Prior to the advent of mass car ownership cycling to the park was an even more popular option than today. With so many bicycles present this busy scene is more reminiscent of Oxford or Cambridge.

This church opened in 1900, replacing St Mary's Church, which formerly stood in the centre of Flookburgh.

The Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, Great Harwood was consecrated in 1859.

The architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, was also responsible for other buildings, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866) and shops on

This was to be the site of the other half of George Hudson's dream crescent; because of his bankruptcy, it stayed empty for a long time.

The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.

The whole of Charlwood parish, formerly in Surrey, was annexed to Sussex for some years prior to 1974, and the southern part of the parish remains in Sussex.

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

The coming of firstly the Grand Union Canal and then the railways, led to the establishment of modern Linslade at its present location.

Abbot Horton had started the work, and John Boyfield carried it on. It is one of the most perfect structures of its kind in existence.

The hospital opened in 1775; the portico entrance nearest the camera was the front of a Mental Asylum, which was incorporated into the building.

The college was founded in 1509 and takes its name from the form of an ancient brass door-knocker.

A minor 14th-century castle, Naworth stands on a triangular piece of land by the river Irthling with deep ditch defences on three sides and a moat and drawbridge on the fourth.

The Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth soon after the conquest on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913, but this was replaced by the shell-keep and tower that still stand