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Seen here is Hurricane, a locomotive one-third of the size of normal engines.

There seems to be ample room beneath the wide arches of Llanfoist Bridge, but when the Usk floods the waters have often risen to the top of them and flooded the Castle Meadows in the foreground

It was one man, Thomas Owen, a land and property speculator, who developed this part of Portsea Island, transforming it into a residential suburb of Portsmouth.

Slough began to expand following Slough Estates' acquisition of 700 acres of derelict land in 1920.

Here we have a closer view of the pulpitum screen. Little of the original 15th-century stonework survived Anthony Salvin's 'restoration' in 1833.

Architecturally something of a dog's dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous for the cracking of the Nazi 'Enigma' code during the last war, admittedly in huts around

Savagely pollarded lime trees line this quiet residential street with its bijou Victorian villas, several of which on the left have drawn their curtains, or lowered blinds, against the deleterious effects

One of Gloucester's new electric street tramcars rattles along Southgate Street in hot pursuit of a local horse-drawn omnibus.

This view, taken from St Peter's Street, shows the great parish church which dominates the west side of Norwich's great market-place.

This view, one of the earliest in the book, shows the east end of the cathedral with no east chapel, only ragged masonry. The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

Chideock (always pronounced Chiddock) takes its name from the castle of the de Chideocks, built around 1379.

The Backs of Cambridge are probably as well known as the colleges themselves. Immaculately kept lawns sweep down to the peaceful River Cam.

The huge oil refinery at Fawley cost £120 million when it was built; it occupied the site of Cadland Park, the former home of the Drummond family. This refinery was the largest in the United Kingdom.

The Barbican lines Sutton Harbour, long a fishing quay and the original port of Plymouth.

The Turkish palace-style pier of 1872 has onion-domed kiosks and an elegant promenade above the water to a romantic Sultan's palace.

At the bottom end of the High Street, in the old market place, pride of place goes to the water pump crowned by a gas street light. The gabled building was newly built at this time.

Modern buildings also replace most of those on the left of the view.

It was rebuilt thanks to the efforts of James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth.

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels, a hydropathic establishment and private boarding houses.

This church has a lantern tower and is said to be the resting place of 39 Lord Mayors. It is the Guild Church of York. It contains a 17th Century pulpit from which John Wesley preached.

Boscastle's rugged harbour is a romantic inlet, twisting and turning for half a mile between brooding cliffs of slate and shale.

The world-famous regatta takes place on a scenic stretch of the Thames between Henley Bridge and Temple Island, site of an elegant Georgian folly.

The Hobys dominate the imposing monuments in the south chapel, remembering the deaths of Sir Philip in 1558 and Sir Thomas in 1566. They were erected after Sir Thomas's death.

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside