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It was a children's summer playground. Bathing machines crowd the water's edge, and Barns's refreshment stall (background, centre left) vies with Mumfords the baker's nearby.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

This view shows the 'sublime horrors' of the waterfall that the first visitors came to see.

Girls or boys? East side or west side? Twins or not? After the Whitby Gazette was kind enough to publish their picture, we received help from several sources.

This was a junction devoted to money.

East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (left), was built by J and T Gale in 1784 and has been widened.

Henry de Newburgh built a large wooden motte and bailey on the site of the present castle; before his death in 1123 he might well have begun to replace the wood with stone.

Construction of Colchester Castle is thought to have started around 1080, and in 1101 it was granted to Eudo the Steward by Henry I.

It is thought that the name Knot came from the sea bird, as there used to be flocks of them here—Knott End assumed the extra 't' only in recent years.

This fine old building houses a large water-mill, which like most of Norfolk's water-mills has a hidden undershot wheel.

The façade of Ye Olde Red Lion pub in Park Road had undergone some minor changes shortly before this photograph was taken, with the removal of two decorative signboards above the main doorway and the replacement

Sixty years after No 24920 was taken, the proliferation of the motor vehicle occupying the kerbs is noticeable.

In common with the rest of this coastline, the sand dunes now constitute the major defence against incursion by the sea.

Cranbrook's High Street, entering the town from Hawkhurst, and Stone Street, leading on towards Tenterden and Maidstone, form a L-shape with the tile-hung fascia of the 15th-century George Hotel at

The oldest of three chests in St George's chapel is thought to date from the time of Wimborne's monastery and nunnery.

A number of sources quote Ampthill's parish church as being 10th century, without offering a precise dating.

The history of Finchale began in about 1115 when St Godric built himself a hermitage.

Great and Little Stanmore are situated close to the Hertfordshire border, and it is to the rising ground above the present village that the visitor needs to look for semi-rural quality.

This lovely village extends from Highwood Hill to the north to Mill Hill East underground station in the south.

Three miles south-east of Southport, Scarisbrick Hall was remodelled by John Foster in 1814 and by Augustus Welby Pugin between 1836 and 1845.

The present building is later; it perhaps dates from 1904, when the name was shortened. It closed in 1974, and is now known as Marsh House.

The shop window at No 26, the draper Henry Octavius Bickley (right), contains clothing and parasols.

Its name is rather apt, as the village is just a couple of miles south of Wakehurst, an extensive estate under the care of the National Trust, and also the outpost of the Royal Botanical Gardens