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Pevsner in The Buildings of England says of Caldy: 'Cheshire is something of a Surrey of the North, but Surrey has nothing to compare with this'.

We are looking north along Wallasey Village, with the bollards at the top of Leasowe Road visible on the left. The cobbled street to the immediate left, just beyond the chemists, is Lycette Road.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

Hartnoll Brothers (right), stationers and printers at Burlington House, were the proprietors of the Newquay Guardian and the Handbook to Newquay and North Cornwall.

This is taken from the north end of the Green, looking south towards Hall Street, showing the wide expanse of the Green, where fairs are still held.

This view, looking north along what is now the main A34 towards Alderley Edge village, shows where Welsh Row crossed the old turnpike, connecting the old enclosed fields on the plain with the open

Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South

This view is taken looking along Station Approach north from beside the station; at this date, the shops and houses are almost unchanged since they were built in the 1890s.

The Georgian-style council offices, now North Herts District Council's housing department, were built for the Urban District Council in 1935 to a design by Bennet & Bidwell, architects of many of the buildings

Adjacent, to the north, is the old palace which belonged to the Bishop of London. Some of the windows in the church were designed by Henry Moore, who lived in the nearby hamlet of Perry Green.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

On 18 July 1844 the London and North Western Railway Company began work to extend the railway from Lancaster to Carlisle.

Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left).

It is an attractive open area, and this view looks north past the pond across Bushey Road, with the row of elms on the right.

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

Bracing is a good word to describe the north and east winds that frequently blow into the coast here, but the sand beaches are superb compensation.

This view looks to the north end of Silver Street and its junction with the High Street, the main Sleaford to Skegness Road.

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

At the bottom end of the High Street is The Vale, a park formally opened in 1937 in fields between the now vanished London and North Western Railway station (demolished in 1960) and the gas works, also

This is the south side of West Street, from the north-east. W Frost, bookseller and publisher of the ' Bridport News', was next door to the Sun Hotel, where the landlord was William Kingman.

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

parades of the 1930s grouped around the underground station into a series of timber-framed vernacular buildings of the 16th century, that one realises that the original village centre was well to the north

The Lido is situated about a mile to the north of Ruislip village.

This is an attractive village ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.