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The smaller harbours support their yacht clubs as well, and are often better places for the beginner to learn to sail.

A large chain and stout lock are today's essentials - or, better still, remove the front wheel before leaving.

The Cups Hotel on the right has now gone, as have several of the buildings on the left and those in front of Jumbo, mostly not for the better.

For centuries a fishing port, St Ives is today better known for its artistic community.

But there are better corners than can be seen from this view. The church, for instance, is 15th-century and is built of local flint. This view is taken from the tower.

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls. Much of the street plan was changed.

Few can pass over the hump-backed bridge without pausing to get a better view.

Leintwardine straddles an ancient Roman settlement, Bravinium, along Watling Street, (not to be confused with the better known Watling Street that leads from London to Wroxeter).

A small resort, and former home to a large inshore fishing fleet, Newbiggin, even in 1955, had seen better days.

Once a thriving port and Westmorland's only link to the sea, Arnside eventually lost its trade to better placed harbours.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Lulworth was already a popular residential area for the better-off, who may have originally fallen in love with the village on a holiday visit.

The grassy bank upon which some of the spectators are reclining helps to give a better view of the game.

A white-bearded old farmer, resplendent in smock and battered hat, poses with his granddaughter.

Today, however, the timber- framed buildings do look in a much better condition with fresh white paint over the brickwork.

It was built from the more resistant lower chalk or clunch stone, which is better known for its contribution to the cement industry.

There is no better way to start our visit to Gloucester than by the river, which leads into and by-passes the city quite dramatically.

The Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth illustrates better than anywhere the fabulous art collection which successive Dukes of Devonshire have acquired over the years.

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

Perhaps the weather was better in the Fifties!

What better way to cool off on a hot summer's day than to have a paddle and splash in the River Cherwell, as these youngsters are doing? The river is too polluted to enjoy this kind of pastime today.

Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'. The chancel arch, which we see here, is the narrowest in England at 3ft 6in.

The demolition took place about five or six years ago, no one was quite sure when, but the one thing that was said positively was that the replacement is better!

The working classes were very superstitious and, although wary of the gypsies, their curiosity would get the better of them and they would pay to buy the wares or have their palms read.

One of Thomas Hardy's few forays into politics was to champion the cause of better treatment for rural workers.