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The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses.

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left. The street is little altered, apart from more formal pavements and roadway.

South Street, extending over the River Wey Navigation to the station, did not exist until after the arrival of the railway in the town in 1848-1849.

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

To the south of the lake the Coal Board built a children's swimming pool. It was later made rectangular, but now appears disused and empty of water.

The main suite of rooms is south of the Great Hall. The library has an ornate chimneypiece carved in oak by a highly skilled carver from Mansfield.

Frith's photographer was outside St Swithun's churchyard, looking through Cannon Square towards the south-east arm of the Market Square and the 18th-century White Hart.

It still maintains strong links with the sea, having become a mecca for yachtsmen.The prosperous town, built where the sea meets the wild heathlands of Dorset, is one of the largest along the south

The Esplanade stretches south-westwards fromn the Georgian and Victorian apartments and hotels of Gloucester Terrace (right), with Royal Terrace dominated by the Royal Hotel (centre), to a glimpse of the

You would take your life in your hands if you tried to take this view looking south up the A650 Bradford-Skipton road in the centre of the Airedale town of Bingley today.

This impressive and forbidding-looking castle stands to the south of Stonehaven on a rocky headland overlooking the North Sea.

South of Lincoln a string of villages grew up along the western edge of the limestone ridge, mostly along the spring line.

The pier in the distance, rebuilt in 1889, suffered a disastrous storm in 1914 which turned the South Pavilion into an island; it was rebuilt, and the pavilion itself was destroyed by fire in 1928.

The Village 1902 Here we look south down the main road into the village as it nears the estuary.

It lies to the south of Carshalton Road, and east of the Congregational Church.

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

Sheffield at 275ft is four miles away, while the South Yorkshire Mental Hospital (375ft) is a mile from here.

Watchet was one of medieval Somerset's most important towns, and its harbour remained important into the 20th century, exporting iron ore from the Brendon Hills to the south.

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

In the main street of The Borough, and facing on to Castle Street as it runs up to the south side of the castle, this early 17th-century, half-timbered building with its complex pattern of quatrefoils

In the distance is the broad concrete bridge installed in 1927-28 carrying the four-lane by-pass south to Belmont and north towards London.

In Church Road there are some older houses and the parish church; the south churchyard boundary runs along Church Lane to the left.

Clanfield sits in a valley to the west of the A3, 12 miles north of Portsmouth, and 6 miles south of Petersfield. Its name derives from Old English, and means 'field clean of weeds'.

of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of a promontory at the south