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In the distance is the spire of St John the Evangelist's, completed in 1868 to serve the expanded north of the town.

It was from here that some of the biggest smack and ketch-rigged trawlers sailed to fish grounds ranging from the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Western Approaches.

The principal import was Lancashire and North Staffordshire coal from Runcorn. A vessel arriving from Runcorn would discharge at a coal berth and then move over to a china clay berth to load.

The remainder of the church is dull, but the north transept was added in 1852 by William Parsons (1796- 1857), an interesting local architect.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

It is a rarity among North London centres in that it stands well away from underground and railway stations, which may or may not account for the survival of such very fine groups of late 19th-century

This view looks north. The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.

North of Fir Tree Road and just beyond Banstead railway station is Cuddington Park Golf Course; the name is a reminder of the parish and village of Cuddington, which was cleared for Henry VIII's Nonsuch

Apart from the gatehouse, the Checker and the Long Gallery (we see their north side here), and an attached range, probably a granary or bakehouse, nothing survives above ground.

The north side has a timber-framed upper floor which was in fact a gallery in front of a range of lodgings, possibly for abbey guests, possibly for minor monastic officials.

This view is looking north up Alderley Edge`s main shopping street, the little gardens in front of the premises can clearly be seen.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

The remainder of the church is dull, but the north transept was added in 1852 by William Parsons (1796- 1857), an interesting local architect.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

The line on the left, beyond the trees, is the London and North Western Railway Cambridge to Bletchley line that was closed in 1968.

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

At one time the North Eastern Railway ran three or four special fish trains a week out of Staithes.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

At one time, North Quay (on the left) would have been crowded with boats, but by 1891 the railways had taken over, leaving Severn trade to stagnate.

Among the monuments on the north side of the chancel is a Purbeck marble tomb with canopy and three hanging arches on twisted columns marked by an 18in brass on the short tomb chest.