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The City Art Gallery building was started in 1825 and completed in 1830 at a cost of £30,000.

The Great Hall, built by Robert, Earl of Leicester around 1150, cannot compare with that of Oakham Castle of c1180, some twenty miles east of the city, as an example of Norman architecture;

The port of London held the absolute key to Britain's stupendous 19th-century industrial wealth.

Ancient Lostwithiel was once the capital of Cornwall, and on a slope above the town are the ruins of the 12th-century Restormel Castle, owned by the Dukes of Cornwall.

In buildings immediately west of Tring Park is housed the Sir Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, based on his enormous collectoin of stuffed and mounted animals from every corner of the world.

Edwardian children pose obligingly in this charming photograph of Petworth.

In the first letter of his Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White described Selborne as consisting of 'one single straggling street, three-quarters of a mile in length, in a sheltered vale, and running

The village sits at the confluence of a number of ancient routes, the most important of which is the Fosse Way.

The impressive Victoria Tower of the Town Hall rises to a height of 162 feet.

The canal with its towing path, a symbol of an industrial age, has taken on a mantle of leisure.

The Rising Sun pub is on one of the roads that quartered the area north and west of Wisbech beside the sea bank of the estuary of the River Nene.

The Deanery is now known as Church House, and since 1940 has been the offices of the diocese of Gloucester.

This was the site of many an execution and the location of the Porteous Riots in 1736. John Porteous was appointed captain of one of the companies employed to keep the peace.

The original core of the White Lion—to the left of the picture—is thought to date from the 15th century.

Barclays Bank, which has by now replaced part of the terrace on the left, dates from 1924: it is a typical example of the pretentious architecture beloved of banks.

Solid evidence of Victorian endeavour and values, Stephenson's great viaduct carries the Liverpool/Manchester railway over the Sankey Canal.

Rebuilt in 1867 by John Loughborough Pearson, the architect of the eastern extension of Wakefield Cathedral, the parish church of St Helen looks down on the town's market place.

The North Gate is the only part of the town's defences to survive, apart from the remains of the 12th-century castle.

Only the steam train (centre) interrupts the tranquillity of this scene. This view from Grip Wood shows the rear of the Tithe Barn, which defines the southern edge of Barton Manor Farm.

This must be one of the last photographs of the old military hospital at Netley before most of it disappeared from the shores of Southampton Water in a huge heap of rubble.

Cable Street is one of the older streets of Lancaster, though not one of the medieval streets.

The newly completed school welcomed its first 180 female pupils on 3 May 1938 and was formally opened seven weeks later by the then President of the Board of Education, Earl Stanhope.

Situated among the somewhat reduced remains of the buildings of Georgian Leicester, now tightly grouped in New Street, Peacock Lane and Friar Lane, the Guildhall is overshadowed by St Martins Cathedral

Ware is packed full of interesting buildings and streets, but nothing it has to offer surpasses Amwell End.