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Caption For Kettering, The Market 1922

The whole scene is overlooked by the tower and steeple of St Peter and St Paul's church.

Caption For Carmarthen, St Peter's Church 1925

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town.

Caption For Torrington, Mailin Bridge 1890

In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

Caption For Newnham, River Severn From The Church C1955

Mothers and daughters take advantage of the excellent views of the Severn afforded them from the churchyard of St Peter's.

Caption For Wilburton, The Church C1955

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

Caption For Roydon, War Memorial, Church And Stocks C1955

A fair that used to be held every August (to mark St Peter's Day) lapsed during the Great War.

Caption For Sible Hedingham, View From Churchyard C1960

St Peter's Church contains a cenotaph to Sir John Hawkwood, a Hedingham tanner's son who became a highly- respected mercenary in 14th-century Florence.

Caption For Llandough, View From Cardiff Road C1955

Although they became widespread, they did not just develop - they were actually invented in 1930 by one Peter Nissen, a Birmingham mining engineer.

Caption For Stockbridge, High Street C1955

St Peter's Church spire is the landmark further on.

Caption For Kingsbury, The Church C1955

The Church of St Peter and St Paul overlooks the River Tame and was founded c1150 by Osbert de Arden.

Caption For Malmesbury, The Abbey C1960

They commemorate St Peter and St Paul and four historical characters linked with Malmesbury`s past: Maildulph, St Aldhelm, William of Malmesbury, and the monk Eilmer, whose at flight in the 11th

Caption For Dorchester On Thames, High Street C1965

The abbey church of St Peter and St Paul is all that remains of an Augustinian abbey built on the site in 1170.

Caption For Wallingford, The Diving Stage C1955

Judge William Blackstone, who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England, paid for the spire of St Peter's Church, which we can see here in the background.

Caption For Berkhamsted, High Street C1948

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

Caption For Swimbridge, St James's Church 1894

Here is another broach spire, 102ft tall, after the style of St Peter's, Barnstaple.

Caption For Water Orton, The Parish Church C1965

Water Orton became a separate parish in 1871, and the new Church of St Peter and St Paul was built of brick in 1878-79.

Caption For Ruthin, St Peter's Square C1965

Note the spire of the 1284 St Peter's Church, the monument, the much-loved 'eyes of Ruthin' (the prominent rows of dormer windows on the Myddleton Arms), and the Georgian Castle hotel (right).

Caption For St Mary Bourne, The School C1955

The church of St Peter stands in the village.

Caption For Swaffham, Market Place 1891

The church of St Peter and St Paul is a magnificent Perpendicular edifice with a grand hammer beam roof and a delicate spire.

Caption For Chesterfield, Holywell Street C1955

The Peter Sellers and Robert Morley film 'Battle of the Sexes' is showing at the Odeon, but also of interest is the Thrift Shop, an early attempt at a discount store.