Places in old photographs

Conwy, a small North Wales town, is dominated by the thirteenth-century castle of Edward I, built together with the town and walls.

The coastal town of South Shields, which lies at the mouth of the River Tyne, has a rich and fascinating history.

Caernarfon, situated on the southern bank of the Menai Strait facing the Isle of Anglesey, is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales.

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.

Derby is an exceptional and underrated city.

Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood Through Time takes the reader on a nostalgic journey back to an age when the pace of life was much slower and more tranquil than it is today.

London's Docklands have a rich and varied history.

Hartlepool Through The Ages is a sister volume to Paul Chrystal's Hartlepool Through Time, produced this time with Stan Laundon.

Herne Bay rose to prominence in the 1830s when a group of London investors recognised its potential and built a pleasure pier and promenade here, making it one of the UK's earliest seaside resorts.

The history of East Shropshire has had a global impact, with Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale acknowledged as the 'Cradle of the Industrial Revolution'.

The ancient town of Dunfermline is one of the oldest settlements in Scotland and, from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, it was the residence of royalty and the final resting place for many of Scotland's Kings and Queens.

Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The River Forth is one of Scotland's great waterways.

Besides having a fascinating geology, the North Kent Coast bears the marks of most periods of our history.

The Mersey has changed over the past thirty years.

The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement.

Newport Through Time highlights the journey of a city that began over 700 years ago when the first mayor took office in AD 1314.

The Great War (1914-1918), later known as the First World War, brought together the major European countries and their empires into the world's greatest conflict so far seen.

Edinburgh's New Town, built between 1767 and 1850, is one of Europe's finest neoclassical neighbourhoods, a triumph of town planning, with UNESCO World Heritage status.

Waterford is located on the sunny south-east coast of Ireland.

Richmond upon Thames was the first borough to be known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', before Ealing or Surbiton were known by this sobriquet.

Nestled in the rolling Border hills, at the meeting of the River Teviot and Slitrig Water, Hawick is deserving of its title as 'Queen o' a' the Borders'.

'Where do flies go in the winter?

The market town of Altrincham, historically a part of Cheshire but now part of the metropolitan borough of Trafford, has a rich history.

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.

Once a relatively small rural settlement on the River Clyde, Glasgow expanded dramatically over the centuries to become the largest city in Scotland.

Runcorn's position on the Mersey was identified as early as 915, by the Saxon princess Ethelfleda.

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

The ancient town of Wilton traces its origins to early Saxon times and was, possibly as early as the seventh century, the royal capital of Wessex.

Wilmslow has played host to wartime codebreaker Alan Turing, children's broadcaster Romany and several worldfamous footballers.

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.

Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, with an urban area population of 57,663 in 2004.

The name Wickford is of Saxon origin, Wick meaning a winding river and Ford being a shallow river crossing.

Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice are two towns on the North East coast with fascinating histories.

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.

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.

To visit Whitby's 'Yards' is to step back in time.

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

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

Whalley is sheltered by the wooded hillside of Whalley Nab on the banks of the beautiful River Calder.

Weymouth Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of England's most treasured towns.

Until the railways arrived, Westonsuper- Mare was a town without a history.

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

This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together.

It was inevitable that certain areas of Wales would be chosen as locations for airfields in times of conflict and war.

The Welsh Harp Reservoir is an important lung of open space in north-west London.

At first sight Wells has changed little over the last 150 years and Edwardian residents would still feel at home.

Wellington Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of this part of Shropshire.

Watford is situated between the Rivers Gade and Colne, fifteen miles north-west of London in what Charles Lamb, the eighteenth-century English essayist, once called 'hearty, homely, loving Hertfordshire'.

Warwick Through Time contains 180 photographs of Warwick, of which 90 are old photographs.