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At East Runton you could walk out along broad stretches of beach and enjoy digging for fossils in the soft cliffs, a pastime made popular by the Victorians.
This peaceful view looks up Holywell Hill towards the city centre, as it dips towards the river and the curative spring from which it takes its name, with, on the right, one of the fine Georgian houses
From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.
Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.
This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.
Both the house and lodge are roofed in local Norfolk reed, known throughout the land as the best material for this purpose.
This photograph was taken on or near the old wooden viaduct built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 to take the Great Western Railway, which originally ran on a broad gauge track.
A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff.
The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.
This building, which was part of Leeds University, was designed by T A Lodge and opened in 1951.
Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.
The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the
In the foreground is Edwin Broad's draper's shop.
Note the children playing in the centre of the picture, and the sun awnings over the first-floor balconies.
The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.
Though Fawkham was given a station on the LC & DR railway in the late 19th century it has retained its unspoilt charm and tranquillity.
When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.
Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.
This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.
Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.
