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Here we see the town's monument to the memory of those from Eccles who gave their lives during two world wars.

Once a small village just a few miles west-south-west of Stockport, Gatley was chosen in the 1840s as the site for the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital.

At the top of Wells Road, as the town turns to moor land, lies this delightful area, ideal for a little perambulation.

Taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street looking down towards the High Street. The arched building on the left is presently a building site.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

To its right Barn Hill climbs gently north-west, a street of almost unspoilt Georgian houses.

The distinctive profile of Moorsholm church dominates this view as it still does today.

And if you still don't believe that Whitby faces north, just look on top of the flagpole.

Although once dedicated to St Dubricius, this church is now sanctified to the Nativity of the Virgin.

This fine beach of golden sand is seen in its early days as a bathing resort.

This old mining village lies just off the main road between St Agnes and Perranporth.

The arcade was the Victorian equivalent of a shopping mall, offering undercover shopping and retail outlets on two levels. In 1899 the arcade even had a bioscope parlour.

Passengers disembark for their holiday on the Isle of Wight. Many return - as Queen Victoria did - year after year.

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull. Note how the dark ashlar is picked out by severe white mortaring.

Looking across the River Deben , with a distant Bawdsey Manor on the far shore.

The old parish church of St Mary's dates from the 13th century, but was replaced by a new one, dedicated to St Cuthbert, in 1827. St Mary's still stands, but it is little more than a roofless ruin.

In 1902 it's 'All aboard the Skylark', as a party set out in the little gaff-rigged yawl with its crew of two.

Bexhill now has the 1930s De La Warr Pavilion, an elegant concrete and glass building of great beauty.

The clock tower with its slated spire-like roof sits on the western range of the claustral buildings, above the enclosed garden to its west and the small cloister to its east.

This is a petrifying well, similar to the one at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects which fall into it.

This idyllic view of Saltwood Castle makes us realise just how unspoiled many rural areas were only a century ago.

This beautifully-composed and peaceful scene in a little lane shows how much life had changed in the previous century; it almost mocks Bagshot's reputation as a haunt of highwaymen, who preyed on travellers

A view of Borough Hall, Bride Street. This is a rather dull building built by J H Norris, the Borough Surveyor, in 1906.

A fine view of an early motorised 'bus, heading through Earlswood on its way to Horley, just after the First World War.