Places in old photographs

Salisbury is often described as 'the city in the countryside', and has recently been declared one of Lonely Planet's Top 10 Cities in Best in Travel for 2015.

'Stoke Bishop has less community of interest with Bristol than London has with Brighton,' stated Francis Tagart from his luxurious Old Sneed Park mansion in January 1885.

'Preston, once a village with an independent life, is now Brighton', wrote Edward Verrall Lucas of the main subject of this volume in 1904.

The land around Turnhouse Farm was converted to a military airfield in 1916 following a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh.

Swanage lies in a particularly attractive corner of Dorset, in a sheltered bay overlooked by the Purbeck Hills, with chalk cliffs along the coast and views across to the Isle of Wight.

The neighbouring communities of Neyland and Llanstadwell, on the northern bank of the mighty Milford Haven waterway, have a fascinating history full of diversity.

Radstock and Midsomer Norton have a rich and ancient history, the former having been mentioned in the Domesday survey.

Loughborough is more than a market town, although the market is still held, twice-weekly, in the heart of the town, and is over seven hundred years old.

Ledbury, a small and vibrant medieval market town in Herefordshire, sits in a beautiful part of England amidst tranquil countryside, with gorgeous sunsets and half-timbered buildings.

Tourism was born in Market Harborough in 1841 when Thomas Cook, a local cabinetmaker, set off towards Leicester and had his dream of worldwide working-class travel.

For centuries, Bootle was a village of fishermen and farm workers surrounded by marsh land and sandy shore.

Owing its name to the famous battle, Waterloo is nearly two centuries old.

Manchester's unique Victorian red-brick and sandstone architecture still dominates the twenty-first century skyline, despite modern developments.

The districts of Stretford and Old Trafford are today best known for their sporting links to the football ground of Manchester United and the Lancashire county cricket ground.

Flixton, Urmston and Davyhulme, in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, form a fascinating and historically diverse district.

The textile mills in the Derwent Valley had a massive impact on world history.

Situated on the 'Sunshine Coast' of Essex, the seaside towns of Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton-on-Sea have a rich history.

The fishing industry has always played an important part in Ireland's history.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

The fishing industry has always been important to Britain.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid- 1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

Hyde is a small industrial town in north-east Cheshire, situated some 7 miles from Manchester.

In 2010, the world's oldest steamship line celebrated its 180th anniversary.

The Kyle of Lochalsh Line was opened in 1870 to connect the ferry terminus at Stromeferry on Scotland's west coast with Dingwall and Inverness on the east coast.

Jersey, Britain's 'jewel in the crown', is the largest of the Channel Islands and sits just over 14 miles from the west Normandy coastline.

The Border Counties Railway ran from the old railway village of Riccarton Junction on the Waverley Route across the Border and through Northumberland to Hexham.

The area defined as the 'North Oxfordshire Cotswolds' extends from Wychwood Forest in the south to the Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire borders in the north.

Penrith, a small, but characterful and historic market town, was known as Epiacum during the Roman occupation, significant through lead and silver mining.

Winchester, the ancient capital of Wessex, has a rich and fascinating history.

The tranquil town of Gainsborough hides an exciting past.

Did you know that the city of Oxford is built on a series of islands?

For over seventy-five years, Butlin's have been entertaining families of all ages.

Thomas Lord's ground is one of the most famous sporting venues in the world.

Eltham, long a little-known jewel in Greater London's crown, has welcomed growing numbers of tourists since Greenwich was appointed a Royal Borough at the Diamond Jubilee, 'in recognition of the historically close links forged between Greenwich and our Royal Family, from the Middle Ages to the present day'.

Northampton was nationally important in medieval times but most traces of the period were destroyed by the Great Fire of 1675.

The Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway originated during the 'Railway Mania' years of the mid-1840s, when ambitious landowners and industrialists conceived the idea of a main line link between London and the West Midlands industrial areas.

A Domesday Book settlement and a medieval borough, Kirkham was for centuries the focal point of the surrounding villages.

Exmoor is one of southern England's few remaining wild landscapes.

The Witney Railway was opened from Yarnton Junction to Witney in 1861.

The weary traveller passing through Middleton in days of old would have witnessed a more pastoral, idyllic scene that we can only imagine.

Taunton is the largest town in the county of Somerset and boasts a rich and fascinating history that can be archaeologically traced back to the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Ross-on-Wye sits high on a sandstone cliff overlooking a horseshoe bend in the beautiful River Wye.

Kirkcaldy, long known as the Lang Toun, is the biggest town in Fife.

It was in Hertfordshire, at Berkhamsted, that the English surrendered to William the Conqueror in 1066 - a turning point in the story of the kingdom.

Haverfordwest, the county town of Pembrokeshire, was founded around 900 years ago.

Pembroke, which gave its name to the present County of Pembrokeshire, is a medieval walled town complete with a magnificent castle dating back to the eleventh century.

Oxford originated in the tenth century, as one of the fortified 'burghs' built during the Viking wars.

The Old West may have faded from living memory but the actual locations where the robberies and shoot-outs took place can still be found over one hundred years later.