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In 1690 Ambrose Crowley relocated his ironworks and workers from Sunderland to Winlanton and Swalwell.

Highway improvements have swept away the Italianate and balustraded mid 19th-century buildings in front of the spire, which is that of St Paul's Church. At the far right is the Swan Hotel.

Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

The Teifi begins its journey to the sea 70 miles away; it provided an inland route for the Normans to service the castles of Cardigan and Cilgerran.

At Parkmill we can see the earth bank or pale, with its wall and inside ditch, which marks the boundary of the deer park known as Park le Breos. The medieval deer-park was divided into three farms.

Almost everyone in this Edwardian photograph is looking at the camera. This picture was taken at a time when photography was still in its infancy, and the fascination for it is clear to see.

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture. Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.

Marks & Spencer's (left) has been a constant presence in Wrexham at a time when town centres generally have been under perpetual threat of change.

This solid structure, with its massive piles and defences, hints at the treacherous seas seafarers confronted off the Norfolk coast. An elegant lady shields her pale skin from the sun with a parasol.

The stagecoaches are probably being used on excursions.

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden, which stands alongside the River Wharfe.

At this tiny port, a few miles from Camborne, copper ore was shipped for smelting at Swansea. The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe.

There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.

This is typical of the rural river scenes at Weybridge at the turn of the century, before the First World War. Large houses had access to the river, and often had their own picturesque boathouses.

Penryn sits at the head of a creek in Falmouth harbour. At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.

The pupils of the school line the railings looking at the man with the camera. Branston is just two miles south of Burton, and at one time belonged to Burton Abbey.

This part of the Great Ouse has several mills at Eaton Socon, and also at St Neots.

His neighbours were a mixture of old and new residents.

looks down towards the crossroads at the Guildhall. Opposite Godolphin Hall is the former Baptist Chapel, which became the Flora Cinema at about this time.

Most of these cottages were built at the turn of the 19th century, when stops at Robinson's Tea Rooms were part of the popular wagonette trips.

A car at the toll gate waits as the gate is opened; the gatekeeper's house is adjacent to the gates.

Tens of thousands of new entrants into the Merchant Navy received their basic training at 'Vindicatrix'.

Victorian visitors came to look at old rural England - so different to their world in the overcrowded working cities of the West Riding.

Peascod Street lies at the centre of Windsor, at the top of the hill. The town centre is characterised by its streets of essentially Victorian and Georgian buildings.