Local and family history, nostalgia

The Wyrley & Essington Canal began as an independent waterway, carrying coal from Essington and Wyrley Bank to Wolverhampton.

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

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

Today Warrington is a thriving business and commercial centre where its workers might be found sitting at computer terminals in offices and business parks, building societies, call centres and travel agents; or scanning goods at supermarket checkouts and super stores; frothing cappuccinos in cafe bars or delivering pizzas.

Worcester Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Witney grew up as the result of deliberate planning on the part of successive Bishops of Winchester, a spacious, wedge-shaped market area being laid out parallel to the river Windrush.

Witham Through Time illustrates the history of this historic town from its Saxon origins through to the present day.

Winson Green and Brookfields Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of part of Birmingham.

Winsford Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of one of England's finest towns.

Wiltshire is one of the largest counties in southern England and has a wide variety of landscapes, from river valleys lined with picturesque villages to the expanses and open skies of Salisbury Plain.

Always known as the Wilts & Berks Canal, never Wiltshire and Berkshire, the W&B has been derelict and abandoned for over a century, but plans exist to restore the waterway.

Set in the heart of the Stour Valley, Sudbury is an ancient market town situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Rhondda' - even now, the name evokes the turbulent times when Rhondda (actually two valleys, the Fawr and Fach) was synonymous with the deep-mining of steam coal.

The London to Brighton Line was opened in 1841 by the London & Brighton Railway, providing a service between London Bridge Station and the fashionable South Coast.

The first Waterloo Station opened in 1848 and the current building was completed in 1922, after a huge rebuilding programme started in 1899.

A railway arrived on Anglesey in 1848, linking London and Dublin.

The Three Peaks of Yorkshire - Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside - hold a unique fascination and focal point for all who head to the Dales.

Bedworth's long history, from its Saxon origins to its Domesday entry as a small farming settlement, and later to near extinction in the Black Death, has always been marked by hardship and poverty.

The 'North & West Route', which, in recent years, has become known as the 'Welsh Marches Line', extends from Newport to Chester.

Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, started out as a bridging point and market town.

Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, at the lowest bridging point, Newcastle is generally regarded as the capital of the north-eastern region of the United Kingdom.

The South Wales Railway was promoted in the 1840s with the aim of completing a rail link between England, Wales and Ireland.

Situated in Wiltshire on the banks of the River Kennett, the picturesque market town of Marlborough is a place of considerable antiquity, with a history dating back to prehistoric times.

To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.

Although early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St Peter's at Westminster (AD 986) and it is referred to in the Domesday Book (1086), the history of Hampstead is generally traced back to the seventeenth century.

Taking his cue from this series' title of 'Through Time', life-long Harrow resident and historian Don Walter here attempts something slightly different from the standard book of quick 'then and now' snapshots of his home-town.

The village of King's Norton began to evolve in the medieval period and is continuing to grow and change while retaining its earlier landscape of a village surrounding a green.

The market town of Petersfield lies on the edge of the beautiful South Downs, and it has much to thank its idyllic location for.

EDINBURGH in the 1950s was a very different place.

Northwood, situated in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is a leafy residential settlement adjoining the ancient Ruislip Woods.

As one of Britain's largest cities, Liverpool was heavily targeted during the two world wars.

Hailsham, the largest of the main towns in the Wealden District of East Sussex, is an inviting market town, rich in industrial and agricultural history.

Dumfries, a market town in south-west Scotland known as the Queen of the South, is the administrative capital of the Dumfries and Galloway region and has a population of almost 32,000.

The successor to the Stockton & Darlington, the North Eastern Railway was an important pre-grouping company covering a relatively compact territory which included Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland, with outposts stretching into Cumbria and even Scotland.

The picturesque seaside town of Nairn enjoys a prime location on the Moray Firth coast; in fact, it claims to be the driest and sunniest place in the whole of Scotland.

The birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon is a celebrated and much-visited town.

The River Medway travels through the highly populated areas of Gillingham, Chatham, Maidstone and Tonbridge, among a number of other smaller towns and villages.

Dunstable, once a stagecoach centre, then a hat making town, and lately a major base for printing and vehicle manufacture, is once again reinventing itself to adapt to a changing world.

Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in the development of modern medicine.

Known as the Heart of the Fens, Spalding is a picturesque town set on the River Welland surrounded by rolling farmlands and fields of flowers.

Nestled in a valley and surrounded by stunning countryside, Henley-on-Thames is a small market town in the heart of Oxfordshire.

The 1980s were a time of turmoil and upheaval for Liverpool.

Leeds, sited in the heart of West Yorkshire, is the UK's third largest city and is home to a community rich in history, ambition and achievement.

The history of Glasgow extends back into the mists of legend, even beyond the sixth century AD when the city's patron saint, St Mungo, entered its story.

Maidenhead lies on the west bank of the River Thames and forms part of the county of Berkshire.

DERBY'S history dates back over 2,000 years to when the Celtic Brigantine tribe inhabited the area on the banks of the River Derwent.

Ealing, once known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', has had a long and varied history.

The House That Jack Built is one of the strangest tales in British history, and begins with an old lead miner and his wife who took up residence in a remote cave on a windswept beach in South Shields.

The River Esk rises in the Cleveland hills and flows east to Whitby, on the east coast of Yorkshire.

The three towns of Paignton, Brixham and Torquay form the area of the Devon coast known as the English Riviera, due to the sandy beaches, mild climate and host of leisure attractions.