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This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

The Town Hall dates from 1932-33, designed by Briggs & Thornley and built of Portland stone.

The Queen Anne Inn, to the right of Benefit Footwear (left), is much older, probably dating back to the reign of Queen Anne, as it appears on Heywood Hall Map of 1718.

Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left).

The squire here, Sigismund de Trafford of Croston Hall, said that he 'preferred trees to chimneys', and was opposed to selling land for industrial development.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Boroughbridge dates back to Norman times, when a bridge was constructed over the River Ure.

When the High Street was built up, a tunnel was created to maintain access to the court, which has now been opened up onto Little Church Street at the back.

The Town Hall, built in 1766 by William Chambers and paid for by the Duke of Marlborough, has a prominent site overlooking the Market Place.

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

Townley Hall was first opened to the people of Burnley on 20 May 1903.

Here we see Gunnerside Beck rushing into the Swale.

All around are waterfalls like Kisdon Force and Stonesdale Beck Falls, and overlooking the village looms the brooding height of Rogan's Seat (2204ft).

Frith's photographer was looking east, past the Town Hall on the right, towards St Nicholas's Church and the abbey gateway.

Linton-in-Craven is thought to have got its name from the flax (lin) which used to be grown in the fields surrounding Linton Beck.

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Part of this building dates back to the 16th century.

Heawood Hall was a small gentry house in Nether Alderley, once the home of the Hollinsheds, a family that included the 16th-century chronicler who was Shakespeare`s source for many of his

Behind it flows Thacka Beck.

The former school, now the village hall, is dated 1846.

As we turn our back on the Market Square, High Street runs westward to Sheaf Street.

Behind it flows Thacka Beck.

Model sailing boats ply back and forth across the pool.

Because it was all laid out at the same time, Birkenhead was very neat and orderly.