Places in old photographs

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.

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.

The war of 1914-1918 — the ‘Great War’ as it was called at the time — left great swathes of northern France and western Belgium almost totally destroyed.

The war of 1914-1918 — the ‘Great War’ as it was called at the time — left great swathes of northern France and western Belgium almost totally destroyed.

The Great North Road — since 1922 officially classified as the A1 — has been the main route between London and Edinburgh since earliest times.

The Great North Road — since 1922 officially classified as the A1 — has been the main route between London and Edinburgh since earliest times.

Leicester has long been an important city in the East Midlands.

Burnbanks Village near Aberdeen has been in existence for over 200 years but from the 1950s onwards it lay in various states of dereliction and was finally abandoned in 1980, leaving roofless shells and shattered ruins.

Although Liverpool's history goes back to the Middle Ages, the opening of the port to the Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries allowed it to grow rapidly.

Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, has been central to Scottish life and its history over the centuries.

After many years of expansion and redevelopment Bicester has grown and changed considerably from the little Oxfordshire market town that it once was.

Lincoln can trace its history back to an Iron Age settlement by the River Witham, subsequently a Roman and Viking town.

Colchester's history goes back to the Iron Age and the Roman settlement that was for a while the capital of Britain.

Walworth, in the London borough of Southwark, was mentioned in the Domesday Book and, over the centuries, this former rural, agricultural area has been engulfed by the expansion and urban sprawl of the capital city.

Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and has been a major port and industrial city since the nineteenth century.

Amid peaceful countryside, past historic towns and through the heart of London, the River Thames flows in an easterly direction for some 346 kilometres from its source in Gloucestershire until entering the North Sea.

Situated on the Wirral Peninsula, across the River Mersey from Liverpool, is the town of Birkenhead.

Wolverhampton was a Staffordshire market town in the Middle Ages but became a major industrial town during the Industrial Revolution, renowned for coal mining, metalworking and steel making.

Liverpool was a small port on the River Mersey in the medieval period, but started to grow rapidly in the eighteenth century, benefitting from the expanding transatlantic trade.

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.

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

Greenwich was home to a royal palace from medieval times and was a particular favourite of the Tudor monarchs, and the Royal Observatory was built in Greenwich Park in the reign of Charles II.

From its foundation as a Roman fort, Chester has played an important role in the history of north-west England.