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Caption For Borth, Brynowen Farm Caravan Park C1960

This view illustrates the three main occupations of the people of Borth – seafaring, farming, and tending to the needs of holidaymakers.

Caption For Bigbury On Sea, From Climaton Hill 1924

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

Caption For Helensburgh, Colquhoun Square 1901

The square is named after the founder of the burgh.

Caption For Ynyslas, The Sand Dunes 1933

To the north of Borth lies Ynyslas, which consists of a fine series of sand dunes, many now protected as a National Nature Reserve.

Caption For Borth, Upper Borth 1906

This is the original nucleus of Borth village from which picture No 30253 was taken (page 59).

Caption For Dolybont, The Village C1940

This small village had a café, the Dolybont Café (centre), whose sign was visible from the road between Talybont and Borth – the proprietors hoped that holidaymakers would stop on their way to or from

Caption For Borth, St Matthew's Church C1950

St Matthew's Church was built on a hillock a few hundred yards inland from Borth.

Caption For Borth, Cambrian Terrace 1938

This is the first view that many visitors would have had of Borth.

Caption For Ludlow, St Lawrence's Parish Church 1949

were planted to commemorate AE Housman, the poet most famous for his volume of poems 'A Shropshire Lad' - one poem begins 'Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough

Caption For New Forest, The Rufus Stone C1955

also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the King's nephew - also called Richard - died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs

Caption For Michelham Priory, C1955

Medieval Gothic arches can be seen beyond the splendid cedar's spreading boughs, while the rest of the house has more of a Tudor character.

Caption For Borth, The Beach 1925

Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.

Caption For Burgh Heath, Reigate Road C1960

Only the Burgh Heath Parade and the petrol station are recognisable today in this view from The Green, Reigate Road.

Caption For Borth, Beach 1892

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

Caption For New Forest, Rufus Stone 1890

also met his death in the New Forest by 'a pestilential blast', while the king's nephew, also called Richard, died either by being shot by an arrow or by strangulation after being caught up in the boughs

Caption For Clydebank, Kilbowie Road 1900

Clydebank became a burgh in 1886.

Caption For Irvine, The Harbour 1904

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

Caption For Gainsborough, The Old Hall C1955

The mansion of the mighty 15th-century De Burgh family, with a great central hall and long side wings, it is a miracle it survived, having at various times been a prison, a factory and tenements.

Caption For Fortrose, 1880

It was made a royal burgh in 1592.

Caption For Nork, The Parade C1955

Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.