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We can just see the forge bellows inside the low brick wall.

Water was also used for pumping and lifting in mines and for crushing ore, and Abraham Darby used vast amounts of water to work the bellows of his blast furnace at Coalbrookdale.

Oscar Cook is now empty, while the roof has been lowered to the left part of the centre building.

Looking south just outside the centre of St Austell we see one of I K Brunel's timber viaducts on stone piers built in 1858 for the new Cornwall Railway.

Its lands were sold to John Bellow and John Bloxham, though they later passed into the hands of the Forsters of Bamburgh.

8,336 new homes had been built in Basildon by 1960.

Like Bridge Street, this is now pedestrianised.

A Tudor fort sitting on top of Beblowe Crag, Lindisfarne was raised for defence against the Scots.

In this view we see the rather good Art Deco 'Butlins Ingoldmells Hotel', now brutally changed.

The view looks from the junction with Higher Sea Lane, below Old Lyme Road and Old Lyme Hill, from where earlier generations of roads headed towards Lyme Regis - but they slipped over the cliff in landslides

Stourpaine stands below the Dorset summit of Hod Hill, with its Iron Age hillfort overlooking the River Stour below.

The ground floor frontage and canopy below E Reynolds Leather Warehouse sign would soon be ripped out to make way for a hard-edged modern shop front.

The River Wear has been vital to Durham through the centuries – its great loop creates the city's natural defence.

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.

This fine photograph of Malmesbury Abbey was taken from the north, with the abbey mill buildings below.

South from Aysgarth we travel over the hills to the source of the Wharfe, and nestling below Buckden Pike we find this charming little village.

Here we see the well- kept gardens which were situated just below the Promenade and, behind them, the cliff lift taking people down to the sea front.

This picture clearly shows how densely packed the town is below the castle.

Below the village, seven springs spout a plentiful supply of water.

Glass had to be specially made to fit the round window just below the dome.

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

Just below the promenade and overlooked by some prominent hotels, these visitors enjoy a sunny day.

8,336 new homes had been built in Basildon by 1960.