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This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first?Earl of Lonsdale by Sir?Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

On the right, the harbour wall has been badly damaged by a storm; it was not fully repaired until after the war.

Upton-on-Severn is a pleasant country town on the right bank of the Severn, some ten miles south of Worcester.

This building is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'Ludlow's bad luck . . . there is nothing that could be said in (its) favour'.

Whilst some parts of the Norfolk coast have suffered badly from erosion over the years, Cley next the Sea has suffered from precisely the opposite.

It was the toll house, and until 1914 it cost a halfpenny to cross. Opposite, in St George's Field, was the ducking stool used for scoundrels and females who served false measures or brewed bad beer.

High Salvington, formerly a hamlet on the downs, has now been engulfed by Worthing.

On 10 February 1943 a hit- and-run raid by a single Dornier plane caused a great deal of damage in Newbury.

Chesil Beach forms an unbroken line of shingle from Portland to Abbotsbury; its stones are larger to the east than to the west. It has long been a hazard to shipping in bad weather.

Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its bad treatment of the children who worked there. Originally, it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.

The dominant building in this photograph was first a Victorian covered market, claiming to be the largest undercover market in Britain at the time.

Tradition alleges that Athelhampton is the site of a palace of the Saxon King Athelstan, though the present house is largely Tudor.

The original castle was built around 1068 on the site of an Anglo-Saxon fortification. Building continued under Henry I and Henry II after Arundel had become a royal fortress.

The Rookeries were the alleyways packed with slum dwellings which were giving Nottingham such a bad reputation for housing.

Two children enjoy the riverside, as many still do today.

A busy market day. In the background is the parish church, which contains some elaborate monuments to the Clifford family, the Earls of Cumberland.

It was rebuilt in the 15th century, then badly damaged during the Civil War, and rebuilt again.The castle was never a main residence for the Talbot family, though the sixteenth Earl commissioned

If the weather is bad, there is still a great deal to do, for new places of entertainment opened in the latter years of the 20th century.

At around 7.00pm on the evening of 12 December 1940 Sheffield's air raid sirens sounded out their warning over the city.

At that time, around 1860, it was considered bad for your health to attempt the whole journey without an overnight stop half-way, which happened to be at Preston.The Park Hotel cost £46,000 to

The square seems quite small now for a town which has had an extremely active market since the 13th century.

Unfortunately, it was badly damaged by fire in 1982 and restoration work has left a much plainer building.

This lovely Tudor building survived unchanged for 300 years before being badly damaged in the bombing of 1943.

Whenever the Chester Road and Northwich Road swing-bridges are opened to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington grinds to a halt; traffic tails back for hundreds of yards either