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Bangor is a bustling commuter and seaside town, conveniently situated about thirteen miles from Belfast.

Every year, children from the town's churches, chapels, and Sunday schools dressed in white and paraded through the streets. The custom survived until recent times.

Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could - and did - trade up-river as far as Langport.

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.

There were originally seven gates into Southampton's old walled town. Walk the walls today and only five can be seen.

Presiding over the town is the 120ft high pinnacle-topped tower of St James', which dates from the 15th century.

The Town Bridge was designed by James Clarke at a cost of £700. It is of a single span with stone dressings and balustrades.

However, it is rich in history and packed with ancient buildings.

After centuries of starvings, beheadings and executions, the site later became a haven of tranquillity in 19th-century Pontefract.

The Grand Opera House opened in 1904 at a cost of £38,000, but struggled and was taken over by John Imeson in 1909.

At one time, flocks of sheep and herds of cattle congregated at Tregaron ready for the long walk to England. However, the town continued to serve as a market place for livestock for many years.

The market town of Bedale is a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

Godsmark's (second from left) have been in business and in the same shop for over 80 years, but most of the other businesses have changed. W M Kirk (left) is now Ambridge's Fish and Chip Restaurant.

Between the 1880s and the early 1920s, workers flocked from all over the south-west to find work in Abertillery's coal mines.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.

Only the Austin 8 and the cars parked behind it suggest that the camera clicked on this scene half a century ago.

Tewkesbury's cross stands at the meeting point of the town's three main roads – the High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

The local sandstone is not that durable, and St Stephen's has needed more than one restoration in the course of its relatively short life.

Stanwoods (centre right) is the former Chantry House of the Gurteen family, great employers and benefactors in the town. The 1950s Boots (left) is on the site of the Anchor Temperance Coffee Tavern.

Although a seemingly idyllic view of the canal, what this picture cannot show is the stagnant state of the water, caused by silting and the rubbish thrown in by householders and businesses along the waterway

There was a joke - especially appreciated in a boot and shoe town - that one cycled to save shoe leather.

When Victoria died in 1901 the population had increased to 47,000, thanks to the urban sprawl of nearby London and the many people who chose to settle in this attractive town upwind of the metropolis

The building on the left of our photograph was not just the Art Gallery, but also the Harris Public Library and Museum; it was opened in 1893 as a library, but was not in full use until 1896.

The mill stands on the northern edge of town, with St Mary's graveyard visible beyond; it dates from Norman times, and by the Middle Ages was used for fulling cloth.