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The large ball-shaped object to the left is a mine that was eventually removed in 1980.
An inscription reads: 'Time ball falls daily at 12 o'clock and the barometer under is set at 9am daily'.
This photograph must have been taken at the height of the holiday season because the shop on the right, M A Grinnall's, has a number of beach balls and inflatable air beds on display outside.
However, Hannah Ball is said to have opened a Sunday school at High Wycombe in 1769.
With deck chairs, buckets, spades and ball, everything is set for an ideal day at the seaside.
Though no longer working in the 1950s, it still looked smart with its black cap, finial ball and lightning conductor.
The tall building with a flag flying at the top (right) was the Beach House Temperance Hotel.
Viewed shortly after its restoration, this cross with a shaft and a figure of St John the Baptist dates from the 15th century - the ball on top dates from the time of Queen Anne.
Black slaves were brought here from Liverpool before being transported onwards - Storrs Hall on Lake Windermere was one alleged destination.
Facing the Spanish-style shelter and restaurant, built in 1935, are the remains of Mr Ball's Hospital, and the naval cemetery with its lonely surviving grave.
Local fishermen could always earn their beer money after the fort had fired off a few practice shots by salvaging the cannon balls and selling them back to the army.
The ball-finialled gate piers belong to the Crown Court's forecourt, a sedate Italianate stone building somewhat dwarfed by Hall and Warwick's confident Shire Hall built for the County Council.
The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with
The old Bat and Ball coaching inn, on the right, boasts a large selection of cricket memorabilia.
The inn incorporates the Agricultural Hall that was used for farmers' meetings and hunt balls.
The three balls, the sign of a pawnbroker, are said to originate from St Nicholas, the patron saint of pawnbrokers.
In 1860 the village was home to Duke & Sons, famous makers of cricket bats and balls.
Many years before D G Sheppard opened his Orchard Stores, an entrepreneur named Alfred Reader had set up his cricket and hockey ball factory in the 1820s.
The ball finial of the Obelisk looks new; it had been replaced in 1907.
Its old fives wall (fives is a ball game played in a walled court) was saved and restored.
