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The driver of the 658 Leicester to Coventry Midland Red bus service breaks his journey to await passengers in this familiar view of the centre.

The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line.

The lake has attracted racing skiffs, ferry steamers and fishing punts in its time. The boathouse on the north side has also been the base for rowing clubs.

The Gaiety Theatre dominates the corner where the Aldwych breaks off from the Strand.

Looking north towards the pier, the photograph shows the promenade before the Winter Gardens were built. The tide is well in and horses have been taken down to soak their legs in the salt-water.

For many working people life after the War was gray and utilitarian. Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

Clydach Gorge, once populated by forges, is well-known for its stands of beech trees which somehow survived the ravages of the charcoal-burners of the time.

For many working people life after the War was gray and utilitarian. Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

Looking more like two churches than one, Ormskirk's parish church is unique in the north for having both a tower and spire.

An audience watches from the old bridge as two coracle fishermen cast their nets for salmon or sea-trout. Sturgeon have also been caught here.

That much-maligned but vital facility of the motorway network, the service station, was an early landmark.

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.

The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white. Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop.

This photograph looks from the west towards St Austell in its rural setting.

There was great rejoicing when the new stone and iron extensions were finally erected in 1912, having first been suggested by William Scoresby the elder (1760- 1829) a hundred years before

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

This tranquil scene, with pleasure craft moored along the towpath, contrasts with the activity here in the Victorian period.

This view was taken further down the shopping precinct. In the distance are high-rise flats.

The Baptists have been recorded in Bluntisham since the mid 17th century; a Meeting House was built on this site in 1787, and rebuilt in 1874.

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

This was a coaching inn on the London to Norwich turnpike, now the A11, since at least the mid 18th-century. The gabled red brick front dates from c1680.

Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.