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To the south of the village, brick making has been an important local industry.

Many of the shops seen in this picture have gone or changed hands.

At the turn of the century they were for 'Ladies Only' and protected the privacy of users by being pushed to the water on wheels.

The view from the 1833ft summit of the Blorenge is one of the most spectacular in Wales; but the road that crosses the mountain from Blaenavon to Govilon and Llanfoist is fairly narrow and steeply sided

On the other side of the road the Great George has its familiar and rather curious two-sided sign - it has George Bernard Shaw and George Washington on it.

Councillor Edward Taylor and Alderman George Leach Ashworth, who was twice mayor of Rochdale, were largely responsible for acquiring the 16 acres that form the park.

In 1986 the name of Rochdale`s much-loved Harvey Kershaw MBE was added. The mills near the Roach at the eastern end of the town centre are on the left.

This Georgian mansion, built in 1736 by Giacomo Leoni, the architect of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, has commanding views across the River Irk to Heaton Hall.

The menacing guns are potent reminders of the danger of unwelcome guests in earlier times, though the uncommunicative pair on the bench seem oblivious to their historical significance.

At the top of the steps on the right was a fish and chip shop; its practice of throwing out vinegar caused the area to be nicknamed Vinegar Hill.

Compare this photograph with R67001 - the new bridge carries one of the approach roads to the Jubilee Bridge. Today the canal comes to an end near here.

A royd is a northern name for an assart, a practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.They would sow

To the left of the picture are the grounds of the Staff College; they were fully open to the public, who could enjoy the fine walks and sit by the lakes.

It used to have a famous library of 8,000 books, including the copy of the Messiah used by Handel himself at the first performance; these treasures are now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Devizes Castle was originally a Norman motte and bailey fortification, but was rebuilt in 1120, possibly by Bishop Osmund of Salisbury. It then fell into ruin.

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

Prestbury was home to Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey of his age.

If there is any breeze blowing, it will blow onto Clee Hill, and consequently the village can sometimes be very bleak.

The name refers to a form of investment: as investors in the company (in this case the hotel) died, their assets were passed to the surviving investors.

This is another extremely pretty little village in the heart of what was once Cheshire's cheese-producing countryside.

The entire churchyard, and even the paths leading to the door, are all covered with tombstones, some of which date back to the 1600s.

Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.

Legend has it that the original Coventry Arms was in Sleight Lane, half-a-mile from here, and was moved on the orders of the Earl of Coventry, who lived nearby and found the customers too noisy.