Places in old photographs

Langport is an ancient market town in the heart of the Somerset Levels.

Workington is an ancient market and industrial town at the mouth of the River Derwent.

The North York Moors National Park came into being in 1952.

When rail travel boomed during the early 1900s, it opened the gateway to North Wales for the bucket and spade brigade, showing them that 'happy times were here at last' on their visit to Prestatyn.

Historically a part of Warwickshire, Solihull is today one of the most prosperous parts of the West Midlands conurbation.

Falmouth, situated on the beautiful River Fal, and with one of the finest natural harbours in the world, developed and prospered to become the base for the famous Packet Service between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

This fascinating book brings together three years' research together witha collection of photographs and memories from local people.

Nuneaton Street by Street Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

This book examines the areas of Sussex that played an important part in the Second World War.

Newcastle upon Tyne has long been an important city in the north-east of England.

In ad 78/80 the Romans under Agricola established a base near the Solway Firth and called it Luguvalium.

In 1805, Castleton was described as one 'of the most healthful and interesting villages in the kingdom; its fertility so much surpasses the neighbourhood, its produce of every necessity of life so abundant, and its air so pure and wholesome that it may truly be called the Garden of the Peak'.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the Port of London was the busiest in the world.

In the first half of the twentieth century, and in the years following the Second World War, Leamington and Warwick flourished as industrial centres.

The foundations of York's commercial identity lie in the powerful medieval guilds that controlled and organised business development here until the nineteenth century.

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Aylesbury over the past century.

Dudley is at the heart of the region of central England known as the Black Country, so called due to the pollution caused by its coal and iron trades.

Enfield is on the northern edge of Greater London, with the green belt to the north.

The beautiful area of Ryedale is made up of changing towns and villages, each with its own story to tell.

From the earliest days salt was drawn from beneath the town of Middlewich making it one of the Cheshire Wiches.

This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society's expansive archive.

Each of Sheppey's towns and villages is steeped in history and heritage.

Half-way between Eastbourne and Brighton, the quiet Sussex town of Seaford is often overlooked as a holiday destination but it has an abundant and fascinating history.

This is a fascinating and diverse collection of images from the author's extensive photographic archive recalling Wigton's rich heritage both past and present.

Brackley is a market town with a long history and strong set of traditions expressed through culture, sport and festivals.

During the eighteenth century the plight of those considered insane was dismal.

The scenic beauty of the canals' route through the Golden Valley provided professionals and amateur photographers of the 1870-1930 period with a plethora of subjects.

Stretching from the Ribble Estuary to the River Kent, the Lancashire coast provides both spectacular views and glimpses of the county's industrial heritage.

The picturesque village of Thornton Dale was voted the prettiest village in Yorkshire at the beginning of the tourist era in the 1920s and '30s and was subsequently renamed the more resonant Thornton-le-Dale.

In the 1850s the area consisted of three villages - Turnham Green along the main road to the west and the riverside hamlets of Chiswick and Strand on the Green, separated by fields, market gardens and the grounds of several large mansions.

Macclesfield is an ancient Cheshire town that stands beneath the sprawling and beautiful Peak District.

Madeley is a fascinating East Shropshire town with a proud agricultural and industrial heritage that can be traced back to Saxon times.

With today's constant stream of busy traffic, it's hard to imagine a time when Plymouth had no cars, lorries or buses.

Since the development of photography in the middle of the last century, the picture of our past 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.

Rugby as we know it today dates back some 2,000 years.

London City Airport was first conceived as part of the regeneration of the London Docklands at the start of the 1980s, a pilot landing on Heron Quays to prove it could be done.

In this fascinating full colour collection of over 200 photographs and postcards, Stratford upon Avon and its surroundings are explored.

The Georgian town of Whitehaven, located on the West coast of Cumbria, was once the third most important port in Britain but today is only used by a handful of fishing vessels.

This lavishly illustrated book covers Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and a selection of Teesdale villages including Piercebridge, Gainford, Staindrop, Greta Bridge, Cotherstone, Romaldkirk and Mickleton.

With an older foundation than Hereford, Leominster has a rich history.

Tossed by the tides, feted by the fashionable, murdered by the marshes.

Newquay is a major tourist destination for holidaymakers located on the north coast of Cornwall.

The casual visitor travelling through the towns and villages that make up the Rhondda Valleys today would find it hard to imagine the once lush mountainsides and forests for which this part of Glamorgan was known.

Wallasey expanded massively in the nineteenth century following the construction of the docks, which brought in a wealth of other industries, including shipbuilding.

Famous for its attractive scenery, abbey, trademark jet jewellery and Dracula, it could be argued that Whitby needs little introduction.

The Scarborough & Pickering Railway line was opened on 16 July 1885.

This book takes an in-depth look at the small independent railway that was financed and built by the good citizens of Halstead and its surrounding villages in Essex.

Dominating the seaport of Whitby from its headland site, the imposing and brooding ruins of Whitby Abbey date from the seventh century.

Winchcombe, once a royal Saxon borough, lies in the secluded valley of the infant River Isbourne in the North Cotswolds.