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The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

At the time of this photograph it was already 'much resorted to in summer by picnic parties', said a guide-book.

The village store in Holcombe Rogus is consigned to the history books, although a local garage now sells some of the items offered here.

A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

The Victorian guide book writer J Burney Yeo complained that the new town had 'no esplanade or promenade' and found the burgeoning resort very dull in comparison with others.

Mention of a Roman signal station in the Domesday Book in 1086 dates the history of this area back as far as the fourth century.

Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows. On the right of the pier are two of the town's hotels, The Antwerp and The Clarendon.

Captain James Cook was employed here as a grocer's apprentice before he made his name as the discoverer of Australia.

The writer's aunt was for some years resident in Beech Cottage as Smith's cook-housekeeper.

There have been relatively few changes here, one of the best being that the Imperial Café is now a second hand bookshop called Castle Hill Books.

The young James Cook was sent by his father to Staithes from Great Ayton to serve an apprentice­ship to a grocer and haberdasher, Mr Sanderson.

The parish of Boddington is recorded in the Domesday Book as Botendon.

One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.

Lord Brotherton donated his collection of rare books and gave £100,000 in cash.

Books and newspapers would have been on sale for those who had the leisure to read them.

The Manor of Stone was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, though it was given by William the Conqueror to one Erasmus de Walton. His family held it until the reign of Henry I.

One Jack Rattenbury, a native of the town, actually wrote a book in 1837 describing his activities - 'Memoirs of a Smuggler'.

Captain James Cook was employed here as a grocer's apprentice, perhaps in a shop like that on the right of this photograph, before he made his name as the discoverer of Australia.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book and briefly a spa town in the 17th century, Wellingborough was granted market rights by King John in 1201. Cromwell stayed here en route to Naseby during the Civil War.

A contemporary guide book offers a poetic description: 'Above rise on all sides hoary, lichen-covered cliffs, rocks piled on rocks, tunnelled, ribbed and groined, with chasms and natural arches, like

So too did William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner, who began to poison his last victim, John Cook, while they both stayed here.