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Note that the pub sign is missing in this interesting Edwardian picture of Eversley. The sign-writing and decoration above the door is unusual and rather striking.

When this photograph was taken, the population of Yateley was just over one thousand. Less than one hundred years later, in the closing stages of the 20th century, it had risen to about 20,000.

This view of the village was taken from St Bride's. The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.

There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.

A charter of 1560 appeared to give the vote to the 'commonality' of the town.

Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of

This is one of several villages typical of the industrial china clay area around St Austell.

Jane Austen, the novelist, lies under a slab of marble in the north aisle of the Cathedral. She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

The area is known as the Eye of Yorkshire, or the Eye of the Ridings. Parliamentary elections were held here until the 19th century. Two of the courts are still used on a daily basis.

This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

It is a truism that when you want to look at the history (even the relatively recent history) of a place you should always look at the upper storeys of buildings.

Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

So called because a moneyer is reputed to have stayed here for a time in the 14th century, this is really part of a medieval merchant's house.

'P' Block was the home of the Production Engineering Department, and was therefore seen by many as the nerve centre for car and van production in Luton.

The boating lake did good business during the long hot summer of 1914.

Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of

A more casual style of dress had become popular by the 1950s. Motor bikes were a common feature of the Parade, and the number of cars was growing.

With its colourful display of carefully tended flowers, spreading chestnut tree and white picket fences, this scene is an archetypal illustration of what most people visualise when thinking of

The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s. It faces the war memorial, erected in 1921-22 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

There were several dramatic floods in the valley of the Stour in the last half of the 20th century, though its waters seem calm and restrained in this photograph.

Striding Edge 1912 The glaciated knife-edge ridge of Striding Edge was already a popular route of ascent to 3,118 ft Helvellyn when this photograph was taken, if the prominence of the path along

Some people are fortunate enough to live away from the towns and in the heart of the New Forest, their old cottages looking as much a part of nature as the trees and furze.