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The prominent building on the cliff was part of Victoria Gardens.

The park is a pleasant interlude between Birkenhead Road and Meols Parade on the seafront.

The church of St Mary is built on a knoll above the Ouse.

The small village of Burnt Yates in Nidderdale is graced by this neat little Victorian sandstone church.

Before the construction of the M5 in the 1970s, the A38 was busy with West Country traffic.

Barclays Bank (right) still stands on the corner of Little Whyte, but the other traders have all gone.

The town's name is pronounced 'Lemster' and this is how the word was sometimes spelt on old milestones.

This village, described in the 19th century as 'hamlet of beggarly cottages', was built around a castle. All that remains is an earth mound.

This attractive little town of slate-hung houses is five miles inland from the sea.

The park opened in 1911 on land given by Sir Alfred Hickman, a local industrialist. He was one of several notable 19th- century ironmasters in the area.

The town's past industrial importance was partly based on an unpleasant speciality, the manufacture of traps.

Given the Isle of Wight's popularity as a holiday and residential paradise, it comes as no surprise that the famous and well-to-do arrived at this charming resort.

A tidal race rushing into the harbour is used to good advantage by the sailing boat as she alters course to starboard, preparing to overtake the underwater mooring of an unmanned rowing boat.

Exeter's canal was built at the request of the Tudor merchants, who were exasperated by the weirs on the Exe that obstructed their vessels.

The ladies are dressed fashionably, but in the event of a storm the road surface would turn quickly into a quagmire which would surely dirty their smart clothes.

A favourite pub for many years, the Pleasure Boat Inn these days is the starting point for a water trail which visits the reed beds which make this part of the Norfolk Broads an important wildlife habitat

Many of the townsfolk would have been in the audience at Aldershot's famous Rushmoor Arena when military tattoos were staged there.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the right of the square, next to the mid 19th-century Market Hall. At one time Botley boasted fourteen inns.

This view shows the bridge into the castle, recently renewed, and the apse or semi-circular projection. This, like the one at the Tower of London, housed the castle chapel.

Near the Park Gate entrance at the city end stands the former Viceregal Lodge, once the home of the British Governor. It is now the President's palace.

Once nothing more than a tiny hamlet in the parish of Wensley, Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I.

At Guisborough, an order was issued prohibiting the movement of all live cattle, even with a certificate.

Castle Mill stands on the River Mole and was recorded in Domesday. It was always a corn mill, and was enlarged in the 1830s with four pairs of stones, storerooms and other outbuildings.

The oldest parts of St Mary's are 13th and 14th-century, found in the south transept and north arcade. The tower is 15th century and the chancel was rebuilt by John Ashworth in 1868.