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A Victorian guidebook, published in 1895, described Morecambe thus: 'Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant

A positive cats-cradle of wires weaves above the roadway, with telephone cables, suspended street lighting and the power cables for the silent-running electric trolley buses contesting the airspace.

Taken from Coronation Park, this view looks north, away from the town centre.

Taken from the corner of Pioneer Avenue and the Rothwell Road (A6), and looking towards the town, the photograph shows the five-storey Co-operative Wholesale Corset Factory on the left

Garth Dawson's Camera Cabin, located behind the clock (centre, behind the bus), has had several locations around the centre of Accrington, and is now sited round the corner on Blackburn

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

Stoneycroft was part of the new town development, and work started in 1952.

St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town.

This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

'Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends.

Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display.

A pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town.

Probably the most interesting monument in the town is the altar tomb of Sir John and Lady Butler who were murdered in 1463.

In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell.

Standing tranquilly a few minutes away from the town centre, this church was built in the 11th century.

For most people, the village of Heswall is centred on this road, the A540, linking Chester with all the towns along the western side of the Wirral.

Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town.

This is Richmond's finest townscape: a steeply- curving cobbled street where handsome town houses mingle with small cottages.

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

John Johnson's imposing Gothic clock tower, built in 1887 of white stone with sporadic red bands and gabled clock faces, was originally intended to form the centrepiece of a new building development, some

Commercial Street was pedestrianised in 1986, but here we can see it bustling with traffic and pedestrians.

To the left of the man coming up the road is the building which was the town's first station, but it could not handle through traffic following the opening of the Ulverston and Lancaster

Hockley was a growing town by this time and a parade like this, typical of development in the 1950s, would have been well used.