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North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

This view looks east from Cornwall Road along Worcester Road towards the town centre. This was another desirable residential road, with prosperous Victorian villas at its eastern end.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

Lumley Avenue, with its chestnut trees and wide verges and roadway, is typical of the streets comprising the original grid layout of the Earl of Scarbrough's 1870s town plan.

Its grandeur also reflects the flourishing wool trade in the town at this period.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

Dale Street is one of Liverpool's original seven streets, and is captured here full of hustle and bustle. The Municipal Building, with its tower and clock face, stands out further up the street.

Across the road James Barlow, 'family grocer and provision merchant,' had the biggest food shop in the town; from the open doorway an appetising smell of ground coffee drifted into the street.

One of the oldest surviving fragments in the town, this 12th-century arch now forms the entrance to St Mary's Passage, a narrow path running down towards the meadows.

For centuries, the repair of bridges and maintenance of roads was the responsibility of the parishes in which they were situated, though important crossing points were often maintained through a levy raised

The Canongate was where the canons of Holyrood Abbey entered the Old Town. The tolbooth, with its projecting clock, is one of the most famous landmarks on the Royal Mile and dates from 1591.

The 17th-century Angel Inn stands at the east end of Middle Street and the start of Main Street, and is one of a number of interesting buildings around the area.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

This £40,000 concert and dancing hall opened in 1903; the plans were by R J Beale and the noted theatre designer Frank Matcham.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

A street cleaner works below the church wall, while a boy seems interested in William Box's grocery, wine and spirit shop; two ladies approach Russell and Co's drapery shop next door.

By 1905 a spurt of building would fill in the right-hand side all of the way into town.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

We look north-eastwards, above the gable-end of the Bay Private Hotel (centre right), to the Spittles and Black Ven. Beyond are Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill (top right).

Towards the end of the 19th century it was decided that the town needed a town hall commensurate with its new affluent status.

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

This is all that remains of the magnificent west front of the Abbey, now reduced in height and stripped of its facing stone.