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Shipping still made its way up-river to Bristol when this photograph was taken. Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth.

From the Church 1897 One of the darkest deeds in English history took place in Saxon times, when King Edward was murdered by his stepmother in 978.

Along with Etal, Ford Castle once formed a second line of defence against the Scots; the front line consisted of the fortresses at Wark, Berwick and Norham.

This is a 16th-century building par excellence, much altered and added to down the centuries; it is timbered, tile hung and jettied, and bears a cluster of tall chimneys.

We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.

Horses tread the tramway along Pwllheli's busy promenade at Marian-y-mor (then known as West End). The tramway had opened two years earlier, in 1896, and was closed in 1927.

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.

he first effective spinning mill in the west of Scotland was built at Rothesay. Between 1787 and 1834, the number of cotton mills opened in Scotland rocketed from just 19 to 134.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Dale Street is one of Liverpool's original seven streets, and is captured here full of hustle and bustle. The Municipal Building, with its tower and clock face, stands out further up the street.

The King Harry Passage on the Fal at Trelissick was already an ancient crossing when this ferry was providing an important link to St Mawes and the Roseland peninsula.

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave.

This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds.

At the bottom of the slope is the clock tower and George Street, in which is found one of the largest kettles in the country.

North of Ealing Broadway station is Haven Green, with Victorian villas on its west side and shops to its east.

Lyndhurst is the 'capital' of the New Forest, a bustling tourist base at the heart of this wooded region.

It was always a popular tourist village, and there were two ferries over the Ribble, Trough House and Hacking Boat.

The red- brick solidity of the houses presents an almost urban face, apart from the small front gardens.

This clock is a notable landmark by the side of the road connecting Windermere with Bowness.

The original timber building, dating from c1580, has two gables; the brick extension to the right is 19th-century.

Frith's photographer was outside St Swithun's churchyard, looking through Cannon Square towards the south-east arm of the Market Square and the 18th-century White Hart.

As we turn our back on the Market Square, High Street runs westward to Sheaf Street.

Standing on the site of what were once three fishermen's cottages, the Hesketh Arms was originally called the Black Bull.