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The earliest castle was an earthwork and timber fortification at Mounty Brough, built soon after the Normans had taken the Gower.

At the junction of Common Road and Slough Road, two College schoolboys, one carrying a cricket bat over his right shoulder, are seen walking past the 'Burning Bush'.

This photograph looks out onto King's Parade from the front of King's College. To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

Very few changes have been made to this attractive 16th-century coaching inn since the photograph was taken.

In March 1283 Longshanks ordered Conwy Castle to be built and a burgh established.

From its depot in Reading, having stopped at Shinfield, Arborfield, Eversley and Yateley, a Thorneycroft J Type bus operated by the Thames Valley Traction Company has yet to make a pick up in Derby Green

This open space at the junction of the roads leading to Hitchin, Wheathampstead and London was large enough to support the open-air market, which stretched the 100 yards through the middle of the picture

Sited at the critical junction of the A428 Bedford/St Neots, Blunham/Staughtons roads, it is perhaps not surprising to find opportunity for a variety of forms of refreshment.

The Parish Church C1965 Dedicated to St Michael, this particular church has seen much reconstruction.

The church, which dates from 1840, lies to the south of the castle motte, and close to the busy A50 bypass.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

Chichester's Market Cross is sited at the intersection of its four main roads that date from the Roman period.

The Georgian practice of the leisured classes of promenading along the water's edge for therapeutic reasons continued to be popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and imposing parades were constructed

With its white weather-boarded houses and leafy glades, this village was once home to Viscount Rothermere.

What wonderful examples of 1950s fashion are being sported by the middle-aged couple, right.

Here lived some of the workers in the salt mines, including Joe Danson, Jack Fairhurst, and Bill Davis.

The rural nature of Thornton Cleveleys away from the coast persisted. On the right is one of the old farmsteads.

The King's Arms (left) is a fine example of a coaching inn and former posting house. Stables to the rear were reached through the archway leading from the town square.

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period. It was later used as a duck decoy. The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

The post office, run by Robert Farrant, is on the left next to Strickland Cottage (is there a link with the author Agnes Strickland of Reydon?).

At the road junction is the Black Lion, rebuilt in 1839, and a grocer's known as Top Shop. The Tudor houses have been subdivided to provide houses for the poorer members of the village.

The mellow gritstone walls of the Peacock Hotel, on the A6 about four miles north of Matlock, are a landmark to visitors coming into the Peak District from the south.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

In 1819 Charles Stewart (later the third Marquis of Londonderry) married Frances Anne Vane-Tempest, heiress to an extensive property and coalowning empire.