Places in old photographs

The wonderful town of Bury St Edmunds is indelibly linked to the first patron saint of England, St Edmund, who was martyred in AD 869 and would eventually be enshrined in his magnificent abbey church, alas now in ruins.

Leeds, sited in the heart of West Yorkshire, is the UK's third largest city and is home to a community rich in history, ambition and achievement.

Travel through time in this sublimely interesting ancient town resting in the beautiful Wye Valley.

St Andrews in the 'Kingdom of Fife' in its beautiful setting of St Andrews Bay with the Angus hills to the north and Grampians in the far distance, has been known to Helen Cook since childhood.

Wednesbury Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the West Midlands.

Old photographs allow us to relive the past a little and this excellent collection of more than 200 photographs of Blackburn will bring back memories for many.

With its famous hotel, St Pancras is now the London terminus of the Eurostar, with a high speed rail link to the Kent coast and the Channel Tunnel.

Redditch is historically known because of the success of its needle, fishing tackle and cycle factories.

The old village of Thorpe Hesley, once the home of nail-makers, coal miners, farmers and smallholders, has been engulfed by modern residential development.

The Stour Valley line dates from 1849 and has had a long and turbulent history.

Since the development of photography in the middle of nineteenth century, the picture of our pasts provided by the written chronicle, the museum artefact or by failing memory has been augmented by the most vivid and immediate relic of former times, the photograph.

With its trendy bars, quirky shops and historic restaurants, Soho is an exciting cosmopolitan slice of London's entertainments district.

This fascinating collection of over 200 archive photographs and postcards - many not seen before - illustrates the history of Plymouth from the late 1800s to the early 1950s, including the early days of horse-drawn trams and early automobiles through to the blitz of 1941 and the reconstruction of the city in 1947.

Soham is a proud town.

One hundred years ago in Ireland marked a time of change.

In Cheltenham Through Time, authors Roger Beacham and Lynne Cleaver show some of the different sides of this Spa town, where along with the Regency splendour is a much poorer side often hidden in other volumes.

Gillingham was once an independent and separate borough with its own character and personality, but in 1998 it lost this separate identity when it joined Chatham, Rochester and Strood to become part of the unitary authority of Medway Council.

During the Second World War, Plymouth suffered some of the worst Blitz damage in the country.

Prior to the nineteenth century, Bradford was very much a backwater.

This book tells the intriguing story of the town of Northallerton in North Yorkshire.

Whitehaven and the Borough of Copeland have seen many changes over the centuries, but the pace of their transformation has been breathtaking over the past decade.

Very few buildings that stood in the centre of Plymouth before the War still remain.

Peter Bruff's Victorian vision of a new cliff-top seaside resort on the Essex coast created Clacton-on-Sea, which got off to a slow start, began to prosper during the early years of the twentieth century and then flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, becoming one of the country's leading holiday destinations.

The former county of Huntingdonshire was one of the smallest in England.

Aberdeen stands on an impressive site between the rivers Dee and Don.

China Town is one of the more flattering titles that Longton has attracted over the years, and it is a name that recognises the town's splendid reputation for ceramic production.

This new collection of images traces some of the changes that have taken place in and around this vibrant community over the centuries.

The historic market town of Atherstone developed on a mile long stretch of the Roman Road.

Isleham is a busy and active village extending from the limestone subsoil of the 'highlands' down into the (now shrinking) black fertile soil of the fens of south-east Cambridgeshire; the River Lark divides it from Suffolk as it flows into the Great Ouse near Ely.

Battersea has grown to be a fashionable and vibrant district of south-west London.

During the Second World War Devon was reputedly the most militarized county in the country.

Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland's smallest city, but has an enthralling wealth of architectural and historic heritage that would be the envy of much larger places in the country.

Throughout most of its history, Cowley has been a small country village just two miles south of the market town of Uxbridge.

Upper Rhymney Valley Through Time is a fascinating guide to the rich history of an important South Wales valley.

Pembrokeshire contains some of the finest coastal scenery in Britain.

The ancient city of Bath owes much to the location of hot springs in the valley of the River Avon.

Wigan grew rapidly during the nineteenth century as a major cotton mill town and centre for coal mining, aided by the construction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which passed through the town.

Few towns conjure up such stirring impressions as Blackpool.

The first recording of Awsworth is in the Domesday book of 1087.

Famous as a seaside holiday resort, Scarborough was believed to have been established by Norsemen around 966 ad, although the area had been attacked several times before the Norman Conquest.

In & Around Pocklington Through Time is a fascinating journey through an unspoilt and relatively little known part of Britain.

It is almost impossible not to like Cromer: a medieval town which two centuries ago transformed itself into one of the most attractive seaside resorts anywhere.

Thornton, on the outskirts of Bradford, was actually the birthplace of the Brontes, not the West Riding moorland village of Haworth.

Blackpool has seen massive changes in the last 120 years.

There is nowhere quite like Thetford.

In 1560, when Mary of Guise ran Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, remained in France, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill.

Located at the end of the Northfield to Sedgley ridge Cotteridge had some significant early settlements at Middleton Hall, Rowheath, Breedon Cross and Lifford.

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is perhaps best known for its role in the 1970s film The Railway Children, based on Edith Nesbit's much-loved book.

Kent has an impressive collection of castles, over sixty including the scanty ruins and earthwork remains of now vanished ones, as well as the more celebrated castles, such as Leeds, Rochester and Dover.

The history of Dartmoor extends to several centuries BC, with surviving prehistoric remains dating back to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and the largest concentration of Bronze Age remains in Britain.