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In the 1460s, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, set about remodelling Raglan in the contemporary French style as a Yorkist fortress during the Wars of the Roses. The tower keep had its own moat.

The Cathedral c1875 Soaring above the surrounding rooftops, the spires of the Cathedral dominate the city in this view taken from the tower of the West Gate.

Much of Colwall developed in late Victorian times as a result of the building of the railway line and its station.

This was once the site of Helston Castle, built in the 13th century by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall.

It is three years after World War I, and a packet of ten Wills cigarettes can be bought in this tobacconists for 3d (three old pence).

Contemporary reports of Bishop Hooper's execution refer to his tongue sticking out of his mouth after his forty-five minutes of agony, as if he was still trying to speak just one last word.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.

This crowded region south of the river was once the heart of London cockney life.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul's was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

The most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

The bank on the left of this photograph became an insurance office, and the adjoining dental surgery is also the premises of an insurance company.

The object of Eights Week is for each crew to move up one place in a complex table of positions maintained from year to year.

The parish church lies east of the Almshouses, which can be seen beyond the chancel.

A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul’s was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

Altrincham is situated only 8 miles south-south-west of Manchester, and its popularity as a residential area for business people grew with the opening of the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway

In the mid-1950s Sheffield was one of only a handful of cities that still had faith in its tramway system.

St German's was begun by Bishop Symon of Argyll in c1230 as the cathedral church of the Sudreys, built on the site of the old parish church of Kirk German.

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.

As every schoolchild knows (or used to), the tidal Thames finishes at Teddington. The main river is crossed by this spindly-looking suspension bridge of 1888, seen here from the lock island.

This is a truly historic photograph, which shows the lowest crossing of the river Thames (except for the new Dartford motorway bridge) on the day it opened in 1894.