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The popularity of Frith's postcards was already well established when this photograph was taken, as a sign on the wall above the door shows.

This is one of Frith's posed groups.

To the left of Frith's photographer are the grounds of West Hannay House, built as a rectory in 1727 in a good Baroque Hawksmoor-ish style, and behind him the lane leads to St James's parish church, which

Francis Frith and his successors seemed to take some interest in Post Offices as photographic subjects, as I am sure you will have noticed; after all, it was the village post office and stores that usually

The Village 1894 Frith's photographer paused a mile or so west of Storrington in the hamlet of Cootham.

This Frith scene from 1950 contrasts with Francis Frith's photographs of Margate Sands in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Frith includes human figures; as well as giving some indication of scale, they also echo Roberts's picture.

Although not identified by the Frith photographer, this scene appears to be taken near Danebridge, a short way upstream from the weir and canal feeder.

The Frith photographer returned just over thirty years later to take a further picture of the West Gate.

They seem to be posing for the Frith photographer.

The trees on the green in the estate village of Bolton Abbey at the entrance to Wharfedale had just been subjected to a severe pollarding when the Frith photographer called to take this photograph.

The sight of a man setting up a large tripod camera seemed to fascinate children: hundreds of pictures in the Frith archive seem to point to this.

In this view the Frith cameraman has included part of the broad sweep of Castletown Bay.

On the wall alongside the door are display boards advertising Frith & Co local photographs.

They were, however, deserted when the Frith photographer called to take this shot.

Almost sixty years after photograph 42025 was taken, Frith's photographers returned to take a further view down Chertsey Road.

This part of Fore Street is now a pedestrian precinct with trees, flower beds and benches lining the side of the road where the Frith photographer would have stood to take this picture.

One of the great advantages of the Frith Collection is that the photographers often went back to the same locations, which provides us with subtle degrees of change.

The sheep dog lies in the dust of the lane welcoming the brief respite from his labour, caused by the chance meeting with the Frith photographer.

Photography was still enough of a novelty in Edwardian England for the Frith photographer to get bathers to pose for him - as we can see in this charming picture of young people paddling on the

Frith's 1921 photographer has climbed the hair-pin railinged fence to look along the Embankment Gardens themselves with their neat floral beds.

For some reason best left to the Frith cameraman, one of Bollington's more interesting structures is in fact just off camera to the left.

rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662.The Half Moon is a 16th-century inn.The Swan Inn can be seen down the road beyond the horse-drawn vehicles that are waiting for the Frith

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.