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East of the Checker is the Long Gallery.

This view is not of the 15th-century bridge at Culham, but of the one on the road that crosses the Culham Cut, with Culham Lock a hundred yards behind the photographer.

Shaw developed as part of Crompton and by the early 1900s it had 29 spinning mills.

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

Opened in 1906 with a length of half a mile, the pier incorporated an electric tramway - one of its cars is clearly visible in the photograph.

The Devon is in reality a branch of the Trent, but it played a vital role in Newark's commercial success.

This ancient town crowns the steep hill above the valley of the River Kensey. Here we see the broad market place, with its pleasing facades of 17th- and 18th-century slate-roofed buildings.

The village of Pakenham is noted for having both a watermill and windmill in close proximity to each other. The tower windmill was built in 1831.

The photographer was standing below the high altar to take this view, which looks westwards the length of the quire and nave to the great west window.

The church is dedicated to St.Wilfrid, the Archbishop of York in the 660s. Wilfrid is a northern dedication, and usually denotes an ancient church.

This view looks from Fennel Street, with Cathedral Street going off to the left. This corner of the Cathedral (the Manchester Regiment Chapel) was badly damaged in the blitz of the Second World War.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

The High Street of the old village, now traffic calmed, has shops somewhat marred by security shutters, but in the 1950s all that was in the future.

The Stanhope Memorial stands in the middle of the space where the market is held twice a week.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

When this picture was taken, the infirmary had on its staff Walter Whitehead, probably one of the most talented surgeons of the late-Victorian era.

This Snowdonian village on the Holyhead Road (A5) lies at the mouth of the pass of Nant Ffrancon, beneath the famous Penrhyn slate quarries, once the largest in the world and still producing slate today

The Late 19th to the Early 20th Century Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on

This celebrated port prospered as a result of its natural deep-water anchorage. The quay was constructed in 1640 and soon after Falmouth was granted the status of Britain's Mail Packet station.

'The First and Last Refreshment House in England' doubtless took full advantage of the captive audience.

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.