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The prosperity of the North Wales coastline grew steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture.The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

To the north-west of the centre is the church of All Hallows, where parish rooms were added in 1974.

Two miles north of Hitchin lies Ickleford, where the Roman Icknield way crosses the confluence of the Rivers Hiz and Oughton.

Another view of Slapton Sands, this time looking north. The sea wall is a little more substantial today, otherwise the view is unchanged.

The first round-the-world solo yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was part of the family, and he is buried in North Devon.

The huge saddle-backed tower is in an unusual position, north of the nave, and architecturally it is interesting for its fortified appearance.

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

This view, taken from an upper floor window of the execrable Empire Hotel, looks beyond the Parade Gardens, laid out in the 1880s, to North Parade, a long 'palace front' of twenty-five bays with a central

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning

On the right is the village police house; its high pointed wooden porch looks more like Welsh architecture than that of the north-east of England.

The broad pathway on the left was the main route through the Park, leading from Scarbrough Avenue to Sea View Road, and is now the line of the present Park Avenue.

The substantial clubhouse pictured here cost £3,000; it is now the North Shore Hotel.

The church dominates views from the south while behind it, to the north, are the remains of the Norman motte and bailey castle. Remarkably, the brutally pruned lime trees survive.

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.

A private steam company has already opened six miles of track north of Matlock, and intend one day to get right through to Buxton. With views like this at every turn, it will be incredibly popular.

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

The fine spire of St Marks Church of 1870 makes a worthwhile visual stop to this view north.

Though the lines were owned by the North Eastern, no less than five other companies had running powers into the city.

Though the lines were owned by the North Eastern, no less than five other companies had running powers into the city.

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

The boathouse on the north side has also been the base for rowing clubs. Fishing was 6d a day or 10s a season in 1872. A record-breaking 26lbs 14oz pike was caught in 1982.