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Pleasure seekers make the most of the winter weather skating on one of the many lakes. The Crystal Palace became a paradise for Londoners keen to escape the dirt and the grime.

Although Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in Dartmoor, he got his inspiration here – the Baskerville family once owned Eardisley's castle and the story of the black

Warehouses and industry flourish along the banks of the river. In 1968, when work was underway on a new Devon Bridge, timber piles and some stonework were discovered on the river bed.

The quay at the head of Pont Pill, a branch of the Fowey river off Fowey harbour, could be reached at high tide; it was an important trading place with warehouses and limekilns.

This Gothic archway in granite ashlar with four tall octagonal pillars is a landmark that can be hardly missed at the foot of Coinagehall Street.

Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.

Sir Walter Raleigh was found guilty of treason in the old Market House at Staines, which has since been demolished. A plague had prevented the Court from holding the trial in London.

Newly built at the time of this photo, the Victoria Institute combined library, museum and a school of art and science in one building. Today, the school has been replaced by an art gallery.

The Star Tea Company boldly displays its wares, without the awnings employed by many of the other traders in this superb scene. Just look at the wonderful streetscape on the west side.

The octagonal building standing in the centre of the high street was erected in 1609 as a market from which the famous locally-produced broadcloth was sold.

Rendering on the White Hart Hotel has been set within panels, but the decorative emphasis is lost in the application of a uniform colour to the façade.

In this view from the south-west, two smallish levelled areas that appear to be stepped one above the other can be seen to the left of the castle.

A view of two late-Victorian buildings facing each other across Queen Street.

The west-bound traffic, overtaking a parked vehicle and cyclist, is rather hogging the middle of the road.

Begun by William Cavendish, fourth Earl and later first Duke of Devonshire in 1687, the House was completed in 1706. The north wing was added between 1820-30.

Opened only five years before this picture was taken, the fare was 1d, the old penny being worth about .4 of a post-decimalisation one.

The foundation stone of All Saints' Church was laid on 18 July 1873 by Sir Roundell Palmer, afterwards the first Earl of Selbourne, the Lord Chancellor. It was consecrated 17 months later.

Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'.

Completed in 1789, All Saints' survived in its original form for less than sixty years before it was remodelled and the west tower added.

The Cambridge Hotel, on the corner of the High Street, was built in 1862 by Charles Raleigh Knight, and was named after the second Duke of Cambridge.

To the right is the Liberal Club, also of 1893, and further along is the old Mechanics' Institute (1889) with its own collection of over 800 books.

An Act of 1952 closed the waterway to traffic along most of its length. A £23.8 million investment enabled Rochdale to link up with the national canal network again in 2002.

Here we see Brynmawr, the highest town in South Wales, from the old Blaenavon Road; this is one part of Brynmawr which has not changed at all.

A stained glass window in Daresbury's church depicts characters from the stories of Alice in Wonderland.