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Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes.
In the middle of Great Whyte stands the 'dummy clock'.
Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.
Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke.
Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth.
The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.
Go back to the Avon valley, turn right at the traffic lights by the Viaduct Inn, then left towards Lower Limpley Stoke.
The factory buildings in this picture have gone, and today this sprawling village is popular with those who work in Andover and commute daily to London.
Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout.'
Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby.
Ignoring the small building (left) and the iron railings this could almost be a rural scene.
The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning
Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.
The row of shops opposite was known as The Polygon, though R H Toothill's chemist shop is on Church View.
The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills.
In the foreground horse-drawn reaping machines are offered for sale in the market.
This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.
Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.
Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.
At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower.
