Places in old photographs

Portsmouth Dockyard has a long and distinguished history.

Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a world freight terminal.

The Midland & South Western Junction Railway was formed in 1884 by amalgamation of the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover and the Swindon & Cheltenham Extension railways.

'The Fair City' of Perth is aptly named.

The Victorian era saw great changes to the nation's capital.

Whitehaven & Around From Old Photographs contains a collection of never-before-seen vintage photographs from the town and surrounding areas, collected together into one volume and spanning Whitehaven's heyday as a mining and shipbuilding town.

Sittingbourne's steady growth from mid-Victorian times began with the construction of a railway line linking London to east Kent port, bisecting the town.

Bramhall is a thriving, bustling and leafy suburb of Stockport, close to Manchester.

The city of Gloucester has been the subject of many publications in recent years that have detailed its long and eventful history.

The Lancashire town of Oldham was a boom town of the Industrial Revolution and among the first ever industrialised towns in England.

Edinburgh's South Side has contributed much to the rich story of the city.

Bounded by the River Dee in the west and by the River Mersey in the east, the Wirral peninsula is a remarkable place.

As a popular seaside town and resort on the south coast, Weymouth is loved by locals and visitors alike for its rich and varied history.

Ten miles outside Norwich, on the route to Thetford and the rest of the country, sits the Norfolk market town of Wymondham.

Before the development of canals, railways or metalled roads, the quickest and most effective means of transporting goods from one point to another in Britain was by the use of coastal shipping, shallow-draught boats travelling between the ports of the British Isles.

Famous as the birthplace of rugby league and of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson as well as being the childhood home of Herbert Asquith, Huddersfield rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution as a major centre of textile production.

Evesham is a picturesque market town that sits within a loop of the River Avon roughly halfway between Stratford-upon-Avon and Tewkesbury.

Salisbury is often described as 'the city in the countryside'.

Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland's smallest city.

Lytham St Annes has always been a bit posh, the yin to its neighbour Blackpool's yang, and home to no fewer than four golf courses, including the illustrious Royal Lytham St Annes.

Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson - the great Victorian engineers - into the limelight, there was a 'Colossus' who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for what was to follow.

Monmouth (Welsh: Trefynwy - 'town on the Monnow'), is a traditional county town in Monmouthshire, Wales, and is located on the confluence of the River Monnow and River Wye.

In 1897, Nottingham was granted a city charter to coincide with the celebrations accompanying Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

The city of Leeds, self-proclaimed 'Capital of the North', has come a long way since receiving its first charter in 1207.

This companion volume to the author's successful Sussex Railway Stations Through Time focuses in vivid detail on the stations located within the densely populated county of Surrey, an area largely unaffected by the drastic cuts of the 1950s and 1960s.

Camberwell is an important part of the London Borough of Southwark, the city's most historic borough.

Chepstow (Welsh: Cas-gwent) is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England on a bend of the River Wye.

Hanwell and Southall both have surprisingly interesting historical associations.

The historic East Sussex town of Rye has been an important place since medieval times when it was a member of the Confederation of Cinque Ports, a series of Kent and Sussex coastal towns formed for military and trade purposes.

Barrow-in-Furness is a small post-industrial town at the end of a long peninsula in the north of England.

Harpenden: The Postcard Collection depicts a vibrant selection of over 170 images captured during the first half of the twentieth century by a small but dedicated group of photographers, who recorded for posterity the copious views of this picturesque village and the immediate surrounding area.

Opened on 17 July 1761, the canal has a special place in history as the first to be built in Britain without following an existing watercourse, and so became a model for those that followed.

Mansfield Through Time offers a cameo glimpse of a town whose character and identity has, over the last few hundred years, been moulded, modified and tempered by coal mining and the Industrial Revolution.

The market town of Castle Douglas, beside Carlingwark Loch in the southern Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway, is relatively new, though the area has been inhabited from prehistoric times and the Romans had a military base close by.

The municipal borough of Ilford, in north-east London, grew from a sleepy Essex backwater in the seventeenth century to become a major coaching town, thanks to its strategic position on the London-Colchester road.

The east London town of Upminster, part of the borough of Havering, has a long and distinctive history.

The district of Wimbledon has become synonymous with its world-famous tennis tournament held here since 1922.

The bustling market town of Honiton nestles on the southern banks of the River Otter in beautiful east Devon.

Museums play an important part of twenty-first-century life for residents of the United Kingdom.

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom.

Today Cirencester is an attractive market town at the heart of the Cotswolds, and has been a thriving place since Roman times when as Corinium it was a regional capital.

Letchworth Garden City was founded in Hertfordshire in 1903.

The Festival and King's Theatres are two of Scotland's most historic theatrical venues and both have their own engrossing stories to tell.

Doncaster has always benefited from its location.

Norfolk in the Great War explores the story of the county of Norfolk, its military forces and the impact of the war on local people through a fascinating selection of over 200 photographs, many of them previously unpublished, from the archive of Neil R.

At the northern end of the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove and Butt Lane were quiet and rural areas of scattered settlements that became an industrial centre of great importance in the economy of North Staffordshire.

Helensburgh's history begins on the 11 January 1776 when Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, on the shore of Loch Lomond, advertised land to be divided into building plots on the south-facing slope overlooking the Clyde.

In the early eighteenth century, Lochee consisted of a small community of weavers who had settled along the banks of a burn.

The main role of the tug is to assist vessels in the river or within the dock system by moving them by pushing or towing.

Northwich Through the Ages offers a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country with a completely new set of past and present images.