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The village features in the story surrounding Wulfhere of Mercia and his two sons Ulfred and Rufin.

An Eiffel Tower at New Brighton was part of the original dream of James Atherton as he planned his new holiday resort. It was started in 1896 and opened in 1898.

Apart from the castle, this is the highest part of Clitheroe, 300ft above sea level.

This is a lovely full frontal view of Manchester Town Hall as it was over a century ago. The Albert Memorial in the middle of our photograph has a elaborate history, which is often told wrongly.

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.

How many of these men came back wounded to be cared for at Frensham Military Hospital, based at a large mansion, Frensham Heights? How many were to return alive by the end of the following year?

However, it was also one of the earliest seaside resorts in the country. When the first train arrived here in July 1845, it brought with it huge numbers of day-trippers.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

This view was taken looking across White Cross Bay to the northern end of the lake.

This picturesque village is celebrated for the Eleanor Cross, built in 1294 as a memorial to Queen Eleanor, the wife of King Edward I.

Yorkshire Street was one of the main shopping streets in the town. Along here could be found McDonnell's store, which was the place to go for fresh Irish eggs and home-cured Irish ham.

Despite being an ancient settlement, Maltby was still little more than a village at the beginning of the 20th century. Then things changed.

This leafy suburb of Tunbridge Wells boasts a broad and spacious green, fringed by cottages and trees.

On the west bank of the Taw, this view shows the old road (left), and new one (right). The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

An indication of the popularity of this area as a resort can be seen from the shop (extreme right) which is Mugford's Holiday Wear.

The train from Belfast would get you to Larne and on your way to London with a total journey time of 13 hours. The same line brought you to the starting point of the wonderful Antrim Coast Road.

Broadstairs, a well-known resort on the Isle of Thanet between Margate and Ramsgate, retains its village atmosphere.

This wonderful view from the walls was taken before the onslaught of the motor car, and when gas lamps were still in place.

This must have been a rarefied atmosphere for clerics and scholars in a world only just recovering from the trauma of Britain's war with Germany.

As we walk down Northgate Street from the cross, and turn right by Debenhams, we will enter the relatively new area of Kings Square.

Any attacking force attempting to enter the bailey was faced with the prospect of having to run the gauntlet of defending fire from the keep's battlements.

A considerable transformation from the scene at the turn of the century, with the macadamised road surface, traffic lights and road islands now channelling the cars and lorries.

This was formerly the home of the late Alan Clark MP, author of the famous 'Diaries'.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South