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This photograph was taken from roughly the site of the old Post Office.

Looking at the bandstand from the beach, the reason for its popular name of 'the bird cage' is obvious.

There is a bit of a swell on, and the majority of people are wrapped up warmly.

Poole's Town Cellars, in the heart of Poole's mercantile district, are seen here on a busy day .

The church was designed by W Bassett Smith of London and built at a cost of £3,320; it was consecrated on 11 May 1869.

At this date, the old fashioned, rather cumbersome bathing machines were being replaced by bathing tents, the forerunners of the wooden huts which came later.

A crowd has gathered and awaits the start of a match at Exmouth's cricket ground, a few hundred yards from the sea front.

This building still exists - but not in Shropshire.

Looking like a refugee from Disney World, or something dreamed up by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Shakespeare Memorial Building was erected in 1879.

Brownsea Island is delightfully situated at the heart of Poole Harbour; its castle was built to safeguard the entrance of that important naval anchorage.

A view from the harbour with the Sloop Inn at the centre of the picture and with Fish Street leading uphill to the right.

The 17th-century mill at Hinxton oozes character with its weatherboarded walls, although the corrugated asbestos roof it sports in this view does not particularly add to its charms.

Some of the kerbstones which line Ashburton's narrow streets are made from fine pink marble, quarried locally.

The Fitzwilliam Arms, on the main road to Peterborough, was possibly altered from a row of cottages.

This photograph was taken at the bottom of the High Street. Notice the people queuing patiently outside the shop on the left.

A line of mainly 18th- and 19th-century cottages line the banks of the mighty River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, a small settlement to the south of Darlington and very close to the borders of County Durham.

Cattle were sold at the Rother Beast Market in Broad Street, which had standings with gutters down each side, hence the width of the street.

Bradpole is now a pleasant northern suburb of Bridport, but its heart still enjoys a village atmosphere.

Built at a total cost of £4000 including land, St Leonard's Church opened in 1873, the same year that St Leonard's district was created.

The gable end of the lifeboat house is seen in the background, almost at the end of the road through the village.

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

Looking through the Gate in to the Close, a notice on the doors is a reminder that they are shut every night at 11pm.

Great Haywood lies at the junction of the Trent & Mersey with the Staffs & Worcestershire canals.

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.