BRITAIN'S FIRST PHOTO ALBUM: 3 DVD Box Set

Presented by TV personality and journalist John Sergeant, these ten BBC documentaries follow in the footsteps of pioneering Victorian photographer Francis Frith who set himself the formidable task of photographing as much of Britain as possible in the latter half of the 19th century. The three discs are grouped by London and the Southeast, South and Southwest and The North with coverage from Tower Bridge witnessing Victorian engineering at its most impressive, Charles Dickens's favourite holiday home, sampling the wares of a Hampshire brewing town, visiting an ancient watermill in Lyme Regis and the dungeons in Exeter Guildhall, picturesque South Wales, from Liverpool to Blackburn, Stirling to Falkirk, Hartlepool to Whitby and Chesterfield to Eyam, from the comfort of our armchairs the entire box set has 250 minutes running time. Three colour DVDs.