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Sefton Park has always had much to delight its visitors, and when the Palm House opened in 1896 thousands came to see it, along with the other glories of the Park.

As oil tankers got bigger and bigger in the early 1950s, some of them were difficult to handle on the Manchester Ship Canal.

The stained glass in the south window has several Netherlands roundels of the 16th century and later. Brasses commemorate the great clothier Thomas Horton and his wife.

Our photographer was a busy man, and obviously spent a week or more travelling the area to capture the village scenes that we see here in our book, some eighty years on.

This was a former royal manor granted by Henry I to his cousin Richard de Redvers in 1100, who raised the first castle on the site, building a motte 27ft high.

This is the High Wall of the harbour, with Higher Walk on top and Lower Walk below, with the Gin Shop alcove and steps (left).

The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.

St Patrick himself is said to have been shipwrecked on the head; years later, monks came from his monastic foundation in Ireland and built this chapel in his memory.

Oh dear, oh dear! Very little of this pleasant scene is still in being. The bus driver told me after he had seen the photograph that 'it's all under Wilkinson's'. And he was correct.

One of the gang-masters of the mining teams was a certain Mr Fison.

This street was the original London to Holyhead turnpike, and along it stood twelve hostelries providing for the passing trade of up to 80 coaches a day.

Co-operative stores sprang up everywhere in places like Bedwas to bring affordable shopping to the valley areas, where they were often the main or only source of groceries and goods.

An excellent small history of the village has recently been published by the Local History Group, which looks in the main at Billesdon's evolution since the 18th-century enclosures.

The church consisted of a nave, chancel and aisles, with a square embattled tower having pinnacles at the angles.

The Saracens Head Hotel is on the right-hand side of the picture as we look towards the Cross.

Note the many shop awnings and the trams further down the street, a reminder of town centre public transport.

The photographer is being closely observed by the man looking over the railings on the left of the picture.

Erlestoke is on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain, and offers views that can still be recognised from this

The dominating mass of Arthur's seat, 822 ft high, stands in a 648-acre park.

Archdeacon Stonehouse built this imposing gateway leading up to the lychgate of St Martin's parish church in the 1840s.

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

At the foot of the hill the Old Church and St John the Evangelist share a single churchyard, while remnants of the original mediaeval parish church can be found to the south.

view is looking from Peveril Point to the Clock Tower (centre), showing its original spire, which was replaced by a cupola in 1904 after fundamentalist Christian protests that spires only belong on

The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.