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Grimsby is a major port, lying at the southern entrance of the River Humber.

West of the town centre, Mill Street climbs uphill to West Street and remains little altered since the 1950s, although the bus stop has gone.

The old Town Hall (centre right) was built in 1752 on the site of the old Guildhall; the front is thought to have come from a demolished mansion.

By 1931, the redevelopment of St Mary's Square was complete. The river to the east of the church has been widened and landscaped, and bridges built to the north and south of the Churchyard.

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the `Bridport News` office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

This is our first look at Southwold Pier, which opened in the summer of 1900.

At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.

Townley Hall was first opened to the people of Burnley on 20 May 1903.

The houses here are built of local stone.The stream meanders through the centre of the village, and local children play pooh sticks and just watch the stream.The fortunes of the village have fluctated

Charmouth village stretches up the long hillside on the western side of the river Char.

This is a large solid church of Early English design with a Norman tower. Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent. There is also an underground labyrinth of caves.

Glynde is most famous for its internationaly renowned opera house built in the grounds of Glyndbourne. In this view of the village the old building on the left is timber-framed with a false façade.

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

The village was an important staging post in the heyday of horse- drawn coaches, and it is not surprising that the road across the wild heath was once the haunt of highwaymen.

OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition

Virtually unchanged since this view was taken, apart from the loss of the central chimney stacks, the Six Bells is in the old village of Horley near the parish church of St Bartholomew, whose churchyard

This view is looking westwards towards Symondsbury and Exeter along what was generally called the London Road, with a variety of hand-carts and a couple of girls failing to stay still for Frith`s photographer

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

Tantallon Castle perches on top of cliffs overlooking the Firth of Forth. It was once the seat of the powerful Douglas family, wardens of the Border Marches and lords of Galloway.

A sign of the times is here in the form of the AA box (right) with two AA patrol men going across the road for a quick one!

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

The Victorian clock opposite the inn remains an object of interest. The National Provincial Bank commenced business in Bridgend in 1835.