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This view, looking into the High Street from the market square, is distinguished by the crocketted and slender medieval Market Cross - a reminder of Irthlingborough's 11th-century market town origins.

This classic view shows to good advantage the central tower and the west window.

The north side of George Street is raised above the roadway; at the left is part of Edgar Buildings, completed in 1762, whose centrally-pedimented houses close the vista up Milsom Street.

This famous Dublin landmark is situated on the north bank of the Liffey, a little to the west of the centre. It was designed by James Gandon, and built between 1785-1802.

A young boy looks out around the fence of the George Hotel, his attention drawn not by the other boys fishing nearby but by the photographer.

The policeman's spiked helmet contrasts with the flat caps worn by most of the other men in this picture. Note how all the women and children are hatted too.

Outside Chester stands Eaton Hall, seat of the Duke of Westminster. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse in grand Victorian Gothic, the hall and estate even had its own railway.

The 'Fairy Queen', a passenger-carrying vessel, is seen on the Manchester Ship Canal during the early months after its opening.

Howley is one of Warrington's oldest districts, with a simple Norman castle standing guard over the ancient ford at Latchford.

Until near the middle of the 20th century, there was plenty of choice for a short sea trip in a rowing boat, a sailing boat, a motor boat or even a speed boat.

We are looking along Mill Hill Road from the Shippons, a large public house in Thigwall Road.

Brungerley was long-favoured for its Good Friday and other Bank Holiday celebrations. It was the first outlet for fun following the long winter after Christmas festivities.

Taken from the end of the promenade by the Bourne Arms, the scene shows the once-busy steam ferry arriving from Fleetwood across the Wyre estuary.

There are familiar names here, with Barclays Bank, Woolworths, Currys, Freeman Hardy Willis and Hepworths. None of them remains on the same site, though Woolworths has not moved far.

A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.

Note the variety of roof lines on the left. Fred Dickinson , newsagent and tobacconist, owned 'The Lile Bacca Shop' (left).

Although bearing a date of 1682, this packhorse bridge across the River Yarrow was constructed in 1671.

This view shows the tower of St Peter's Church from the now much-municipalised Reading bank. The church tower was rebuilt in 1878.

The market has not changed fundamentally over the years, except that today the emphasis is on clothes and general bric-a-brac, whereas the livestock sales that originated here are long gone.

The photographer is looking east towards Poole Head, at the end of the long high cliff of Poole Bay which includes Bournemouth. To the left, Banks Road runs alongside Poole Harbour.

The cityside banks of the Thames were busy with stevedores and dockers during the Victorian era, for London’s river had been the source of its prosperity for centuries.

Camberwell Green is seen from the bottom of Denmark Hill. Approaching is an LCC ambulance; on the left a tram, about to go out of service, heads towards Walworth Road.

Here we see the Erith riverside before the flood defences and the Thames Path were built.

Motorised transport is in the process of taking over from more traditional methods, while the three small boys on the left have to make do with two bikes between them!