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Caption For Banstead, High Street C1955

The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.

Caption For Basildon, Town Square C1965

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962.

Caption For Kimbolton, The Castle C1966

In the foreground are the games pitches, with the newly-built classroom block to one side.

Caption For Blackpool, From The South Jetty 1890

Also in this block was Holden's dining rooms, Wolstenholmes (photographer to the Lord Mayor of London), Horace Fowler, who sold only non-alcoholic beer and soft drinks, and a place where you could hire

Caption For Great Haywood, The Canal C1955

Looking along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the T-junction with the Trent & Mersey, an attractive bridge carries the latter's towpath across the former on a slender brick arch with

Caption For Chesham, The River Chess 1921

The boys would now be contemplating uninspiring blocks of three-storey flats on the Waterside or left bank.

Caption For Luton, The Conveyor Belt At Vauxhall Motors C1950

Taken in the famous J Block, sited on the original location of the first Vauxhall production facility in Luton, this photograph shows Vauxhall Wyverns nearing the end of the assembly line.

Caption For Richmond, Castle, The Keep And Robin Hood's Tower 1913

Outside the 19th-century cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey

Caption For Stoke Mandeville, The Driveway C1965

In this view the original hospital buildings show the stripped-down classicism used for the 1930s main block.

Caption For Dublin, Grafton Street 1897

Today it is pedestrianised, but a century ago it was full of horse-drawn vehicles, clattering less noisily than usual over its pine block roadway, laid to deaden the noise of traffic.

Caption For Maidenhead, High Street 1911

The turreted and lead domed building of 1903, now Dorothy Perkins, survives, but the left hand one was replaced by a nine-storey monster office block, Berkshire House, and others were swept away in the

Caption For Whitby, 'gemini' 1891

Perhaps they didn't like the photographer - or it might be the fact that they are sitting on a rock covered in wet seaweed.

Caption For Exmouth, The Harbour Entrance C1955

The docks and cranes in the distance have been swept away, to be replaced by luxury apartment blocks and new shops.

Caption For Bonsall, Via Gellia, Tufa Cottage 1886

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

Caption For Hawarden, St Deiniols Library, Hostel And Church 1903

the foundation stone for this impressive building in 1899 and donated his library of 250,000 books; after his death his family built a further wing in 1906, to the right of the porch block

Caption For Linton, Old Cottages C1955

The clay, dug out close by, and generally leaving a pond in its wake, will be mixed with straw and then either moulded into blocks or poured straight into shuttering to make the walls.

Caption For Pevensey, The Village C1965

Many buildings have been replaced by 1960s and 1970s three-storey blocks of flats, and in the middle distance is St Wilfrid's Church, a 1968 building that adds little to Pevensey Bay's character.

Caption For Castleton, The Winnats 1909

A flock of sheep block the unmade road through the Winnats.

Caption For Warminster, High Street C1965

The corner block on the right is Samuel Webb's drapery shop at No 27 and 28 High Street.

Caption For Odiham, Almshouses 1903

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.