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Another view of Greyfriars, this time showing the impressive front elevation. The friary from which it took its name was founded by the Franciscan order in 1235.

Over the years the foliage and the soil on both sides has been cut back to keep the problem of earth slippage under control.

The boats are towed to the end of the cruise and then both horse and rudder are moved to the opposite end for the return trip, thus solving the problem caused by the lack of turning space.

The fitst Tate Gallery containing British art opened in Jubiliee Year 1897 on the site of a prison known as the Millbank Penitentiary.

Both Bute East and West docks neared closure. West finally succumbed in 1964 with East surviving a further six years.

Nearby another monument remembers two teachers and 38 children, killed in 1944 when an American Liberator from Wharton crashed on the school.

This was formerly the seat of the Hutton family, who produced two archbishops, both called Matthew, of York in 1595 and Canterbury in 1757.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

As we look east from Queen Square, the terrace we see on the right, Northumberland Buildings, built in 1778, is another design by the ubiquitous Thomas Baldwin.

The lifeboat house was deemed necessary by the local authorities in view of the dangerous channels and sandbanks already noted.

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year.

This connection with both her and John Masefield is remembered at the annual poetry festival.

Horndon has historical footnotes to make it both proud and ashamed. Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London.

A lone elderly oarsman reflects on life on the still waters of the little bay below Wray Castle and its impressive ornate boathouse.

With the removal of both the main shopping and administrative areas of Runcorn some miles away these photographs show a town that, in the last 40 years, has changed enormously.

Extensions were added to the palace over the following century after it was first built.Then in 1647 Bishopthorpe was sold to a Colonel White, who added further to the building.

Another market day, this time in Skipton, the ancient gateway town to the eastern Dales. Note the Dales farmers and their wives sitting lined up to the right of the statue, perhaps waiting for a bus.

The Jew's House is another of Lincoln's surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

It was in another of the town's inns, The Kings Arms, that Sir Walter Scott did the preparatory work and outline for his classic novel 'Kenilworth', set during the period of the last building phase

To the east of Stane Street, and four miles north of Billingshurst, is the village of Slinfold.

It actually served another purpose too, providing ventilation for warehouses that lay beneath the square.

Another view shows what a high quality design the subscribers got from their architects, Arthur McKewan and G H V Cole, using a sort of Baroque-cum-Wren style. It cost £6,000.

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road

Another major change in the years since has been the replacement of all the buildings along the left-hand side of the street.