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A great deal of older residential housing was demolished in Victorian times to make way for Cheapside.

St Mary's Butts is in the centre of Reading. The chequerboard flint and limestone tower of the church of St Mary's is a distinctive local landmark.

We have a glimpse of the sea at the entrance to the north coast harbour inlet of Port Gaverne. Note the recent cliff top housing developments on the outskirts of neighbouring Port Isaac.

The beach below White Cliff has long been one of Seaton's favoured bathing places, recommended in many guidebooks, though a charge of 4d was made during the earlier decades of the last

Note the branch of Woolworth's just visible at the end of the street, and the branch of Dewhurst the butchers among the other shops on the right.

Isolated in the flat fields south of Rye, Camber Castle, one of Henry VIII's coastal forts of the 1540s, is now over a mile from the retreating sea: well beyond Tudor artillery range.

This photograph captures the atmosphere and feel of the village around the turn of the century. Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to

This hilltop village overlooks the head of Gillan Creek at the northern edges of the Lizard, close by the Helford River.

Three miles from Wellingborough, between the Nene and the Ise, lies the village of Finedon.

None of its brick buildings is outstanding, yet the total effect is one of pleasing harmony. Many of the shops have retained their Victorian detailing.

A final view of Christchurch, again looking east along the nave. The massive nature of the architecture is clearly seen.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

It is believed that Bainbridge was a settlement for woodsmen working in the great forest of Wensleydale.

The medieval system of strip-lynchet farming is still visible on the hillsides around this small hamlet in this turn of the century photograph.

One of a number of attractive coves on the length of coastline between Torquay and Babbacombe, Anstey's Cove has been a favourite retreat for holidaymakers since Victorian times, when the proprietor would

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

The church is a fine pre-Reformation church, now part of the Church of Ireland. St Mary's was heavily restored in the nineteenth century.

There are few scenes on the Isle of Wight more captivating than Yarmouth harbour on a busy sailing day.

This distant view was taken from the north of the linear village of Darley Dale, which spreads along the A6 north of Matlock on the road to Bakewell.

Bell Road is an echo of Northfield's agricultural past.The population grew by over 200 per cent between 1881 and 1891, nearly all of it overflow from Birmingham; but modern Northfield owes much to

In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

In the background is the Norman church of St Lawrence, which tradition suggests was the chapel of William the Conqueror's royal palace.