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Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream. One is outside the Stepping Stones pub.

St Margaret's church and the village lie in the Lune Valley, 9 miles from Lancaster.

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.

The church of St John the Baptist at Royston was originally part of the 13th-century priory. At the Dissolution, the nave was demolished and the western arch of the tower was filled in.

Except in this enclave, it is difficult to imagine that Kingsbury did not originate in the 1930s as part of the engulfing suburban sea.

Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.

Perhaps originally because of the ready availability locally of oak bark (which is rich in tannin, and produces the best quality leather, though slowly) the curing of leather kept many in work.

This boathouse in the Swiss Chalet style was once one of three boathouses at Longford's Lake.

As might be expected of the world's most famous English public school, Eton College chapels have a host of stories to tell about their early days.

On his retreat north in 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart held a council of war in Crieff at the Drummond Arms.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

For those who could not join the Belfast Boat Club, with its tennis court and long tea-room, there was still the canal to be discovered at Stranmillis.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

As there were two separate corporations running their parts of the ferry system, you could tell the corporation the boats belonged to by the funnel colours.

The land here on the corner of Paul's Lane and Sandy Lane was purchased for nine pounds in 1870.

Beyond are Langmoor Gardens and the Bay Private Hotel on Marine Parade. The wooded skyline above the town extends from Rhode Barton and Thistle Hill to Penn Hill and Timber Hill.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Alma Bridge spans the Sid at the point just before the river tumbles across a pebbled ridge into the sea.

This is the classic view of Golden Cap (centre), literally gold when its sandy top catches the sun; at 618ft above sea level it is the highest cliff on the south coast.

Work began on the canal in 1887, and at its peak 97 steam excavators, 174 locomotives, 6,300 trucks, 194 cranes, 212 steam pumps, 59 pile engines, 196 horses and 16,000 navvies were involved.

The parish church of St Peter, which dates from before 1222, was built on the site of part of the old St John's Chapel at the side of the Roman Akeman Street.

Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.

At the time of this photograph, the fun fair belonged to Billy Butlin, and the Figure 8 was an exciting ride fifty years ago.

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.