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To the right of this photograph is a poster advertising the film You Were Meant for Me, starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey, and showing at the Embassy cinema.

These limestone crags, at the western end of Stoney Middleton, are the haunt of modern rock climbers, and the 200 routes up them have gained evocative names such as Aurora, Alcasan and Armageddon

This captivating view was taken looking towards the top of the 1,320-feet-high Rombalds Moor and shows White Wells at top right.

There is not much traffic - a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger - in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

There is not much traffic other than a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

Arrochar is a picturesque village in the south-west Highlands, at the head of Loch Long.

The only thing twin-like about these children is the very bad-tempered scowl on their faces. They certainly are not saying 'cheese'.

In 1863 the mayor, J R Chanter, had created a small park from reclaimed land. Then, in 1879, William Rock, a local man who went to London and made a fortune, returned home to improve Barnstaple.

At one time there were, ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.

Tantallon was the stronghold of the Douglases, wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and Clydesdale.

When the ice retreated after the last Ice Age, deposits of boulder clay were deposited along the east coast.

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.

The lighthouse between Gourock and Inverkip was built in 1796. It stands 76ft high and is a notable Clyde estuary landmark, looking across to the light on the Gantock rocks.

The Calf of Man looking in the general direction of Kione Beg and Gibdale Point. The narrow channel which separates the island from Man, Calf Sound, is over on the left of the picture.

This view shows the esplanade (left of centre) and the twin piers protecting the channel into Bridport Harbour (right). Looking eastwards from the cliffs above Black Rock.

Founded in 1147, Roche Abbey was a colony of Newminster in Northumberland, itself a daughter of the great Cistercian abbey of Fountains.

Founded in 1147, Roche Abbey was a colony of Newminster in Northumberland, itself a daugh- ter of the great Cistercian abbey of Fountains.The abbey took its name from a cross-like rock that

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Pilchard fishing was also carried on, and a few boats are drawn up on the beach.

Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain stayed at local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel.

At one time there were ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the Mersey Tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.

One of the more interesting events in the history of this famous bird sanctuary occurred after the Battle of Killicrankie in July 1689.

We are looking back towards the Parade and Marine Terrace from the Harbour Pier, with fishing boats and pleasure craft afloat on the rippling water.

Magdalen College from the Bridge 1938 During the Civil War Royalist forces defended Magdalen Bridge by throwing rocks from the top of the bell tower down on the heads of Parliamentarians below