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This is the junction of St Sepulchre Gate and the High Street.

The road to Harlow was a turnpike costing 1s for a coach and horses, and 1d for a horse.

Prestatyn's station on the Chester and Holyhead section of the L & NWR meant that it became increasingly popular with holidaymakers, especially with those from the Liverpool area.

Maplesden is still running his printing works at No 1 - although it is no longer a post office - and at No 5 Gatland Bros.

Dogs are at play in this photograph of a peaceful West Sussex village.

The River Almond flows into the Firth of Forth at Cramond.

Serried ranks of bathing tents and a crowded beach spell out summer fun at Broadstairs during the early twentieth century.

Cornwall's greatest fishing port is seen here at high tide with a number of fishing vessels.

The departure of an excursion steamer attracts the attention of several promenaders.

Castle Street was earmarked for major change, encouraging Neville's to give up their rented yard and purchase a new site out at Common Farm, Leagrave, for £3,397.

During the early decades of the 19th century, Bristol was losing trade to Hull, Liverpool, London and the South Wales ports owing to its high dock charges.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

One medical expert at the time boasted that 'residence at Bexhill is especially beneficial in anaemia, scrofula and tuberculous diseases, and in diseases of the respiratory organs'.

Just look at those poor trees!

Lewis Carroll (his real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born at Daresbury parsonage on 27 January 1832, and lived at Daresbury until 1843.

The Ransoms were a strong Quaker family with wide-ranging contacts in many fields.

The Dropping Well is a petrifying well, similar to those at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects that fall into it.

Almost in Gloucestershire, Bushley lies but a couple of miles from Tewkesbury.

By 1921 the green fees at the Old Links, St Anne's were 2s 6d on weekdays and higher at weekends, whilst the Lytham & St Anne's club charged a fee of 5s for play on any day of the week.

A tram takes Edwardians to Charlton Kings along a High Street decorated with some lovely examples of shop advertising signs.

Railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson settled near Chesterfield at Tapton House and died there on 12 August 1848.

Japanese plants and shrubs were planted, and at the time it was said that Oak Hill Park had one of the finest rock gardens anywhere in the country.

The Thames at Cookham used to have specifically-designed woven baskets for catching eels, which were set up at various points along the river.

Joining the east and west quarters of the city, this was where you could buy quality confectionery from Assafrey, dine out at the Hippodrome, attend an exhibition at the Institute of Fine Arts, or stay