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Traditionally Nantwich was the most important of Cheshire's three salt towns, although salt production ceased here in the 1800s.

The tree-lined walks by the side of the River Derwent known as the Lovers' Walks have been popular with visitors since the town became a tourist honeypot in the 19th century.

Despite major restoration of the 18th century building in 1903, it became redundant in 1974.

A fascinating early photograph which shows the crags below Hay Top in Monsal Dale, and beyond them the freshly-excavated limestone scree (centre) of the embankment which was to take the Midland line

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

The castle was to the south of these cottages; its outer bailey was bisected by the later Castle Lane.

Said to be the work of I K Brunel, it is a fine example of Great Western Railway Victorian Gothic architecture.

Despite being used by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War as a site from which to bombard Nantwich, Dorfold Hall fortunately survives as one of the finest houses of its period in Cheshire.

Heacham has the distinctive flat beach of this part of the West Norfolk coast.

From the south and south-west, the minster's twin towers, set against a backcloth of Colehill trees, dominate the skyline and dwarf the rooftops of ordinary buildings.

Corringham was a small, remote village before the coming of the oil-refineries: the petrol-station sign in the distance says it all. This parade was built in 1929.

Laindon church boasts one of Essex's famous timber belfries. The annexe to the left of the belfry is a 17th-century priest's house, which later became a school.

Little Sutton lies just north-west of Ellesmere Port, and in recent years, along with Great Sutton, it has more or less coalesced with it.

Rose Cottage, on the right, has had a small extension built to replace the lean-to shed. Opposite the cottages we can just see the sign of the Load of Mischief public house.

Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.

The church at the far end of the street is Wesley Memorial Church. Situated in New Inn Hall Street, it opened in October 1878.

Today the store operates as part of the Spar grocery chain, and the entrance has moved round to the left of the building.

This view of Ivy Cottage, which is offering accommodation, luncheon, tea and morning coffee and paintings by Arnold Denby, also shows the 'scars' of the limestone terracing which punctuate the surrounding

The church tower is that of St John the Baptist, which stands over one of the medieval gateways into the city.

Here, from the fields off Folly Lane, Stroud may be admired from a very different vantage point.

The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

The cinema (left) offers 'Easter Parade' with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, or a boxing match between Freddy Mills and Joe Woodcock.

It is hard to imagine a town with a population of 2,000 being short-listed for the Welsh capital when it consists essentially of two intersecting streets.

The age of the car has now arrived, with the front of a Wolseley 4/44 peeping out alongside a very new Ford Anglia.