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Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.

In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

This is the south side of West Street, from the north-east. W Frost, bookseller and publisher of the ' Bridport News', was next door to the Sun Hotel, where the landlord was William Kingman.

The basic fabric of the church can be no later than the end of the Early English period, around 1300. The elegant five-bay north and south arcades are witness to this date.

This shows the main public open space in the city, the Market Square: for centuries it has been the centre of the city's business and social life, and is surrounded by many fine buildings.This view

The basic fabric of the church can be no later than the end of the Early English period, around 1300. The elegant five-bay north and south arcades are witness to this date.

Further east, the photographer looks west towards the pier along what was then known as Gloucester Parade, now The Esplanade.

Bell Lane descends to the west of the A361 and gives us a good idea of the variety of building styles that make up this little industrial village.

We are looking west along Market Street from the corner of Cable Road, a scene that has changed remarkably little, apart from a big increase in the volume of traffic, especially on sunny weekends and holiday

Witley, further west on the Milford to Petworth road, is in total contrast: its houses are timber-framed, often with the upper storeys tile-hung.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

John Bunyan, author of 'Pilgrim's Progress', was born near Elstow, and lived in a cottage on Elstow High Street for four years after marrying his first wife.

The Druids’ Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

The Druids' Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

This small green is at the north end of the village - the Bull's Head pub stands on the left out of the picture.

Little was developed until the later 1870s, but Albert Park heralded a new era of civic pride and prosperity.

The core of the old village lies at the north end of Central Avenue, where the road becomes Bridgford Road.

Near the northern end of Pitchcroft, a ferry crossed the Severn to a watermen's inn and a small quay, originally built to serve villages to the west, such as Martley.

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road

St Mary and St Melore's is basically Norman, large and built mainly of flint; its large squat Early English tower rests on triple chamfered arches and has three wide-spaced single bell openings.

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

The slopes to the rear of West Street are still green, and the view at the end of the 20th century is a little less smoke-hazed.