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The premises of Haydn W Morris, an optician, are on the left-hand side of the photograph.

Runcorn Hill, with all its quarries, is on the left. In the distance it's possible to see the industrial area of Weston Point.

In fact there was a public outcry in the town at the time at the expense of the purchase - it cost £2,250.

In 1882 a group of French Benedictines re-established a community here. In 1907, in an act of quite astonishing faith and tenacity, the six monks started to build a new abbey.

St Giles's Church is virtually unique in possessing an apse at its west end - apses (rounded ends) usually occur at the east of churches.

Nether Hall was the home of the Colt family. This great 15th-century mansion was demolished in 1773 - all except this gatehouse, which proved just too sturdy.

For those taking the waters in Edwardian times, there were plenty of hotels. The most expensive was the Clarendon, with rooms at 6s 6d, breakfast at 3s and dinner at 5s.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's masterpiece of 1859 brought the mainline railway across the Tamar into Cornwall, and it still carries rail traffic today.

The river also gains from the wide expanse of open ground at Hampton Court, where the wind (coming mainly from the south west) is unimpeded by buildings.

Local delivery of purchases by bicycle could still have been available at this time, though the bicycle in front of the shop appears to be a customer`s, as there is no large basket frame

The row of white posts form an attractive (and safe) barrier at the pond`s edge.

The sinuous valley of the Tattenham Corner branch- line threads its way through the contours at the foot of Banstead Downs on the right.

In pagan times the number seven was of special superstitious importance, and examples of Seven Springs are found at other places in the Cotswolds. below: STROUD, Butter Row, Old Pyke

This view of Portskewett is still recognisable today, although there are now pavements rather than grass verges, and the patch of grass with the road sign to Crick in the middle is

It was near here in June 1839 that a passenger on a boat to London, Mrs Christina Collins, was brutally beaten, raped and murdered.

In 1878 an indoor market hall was built, to the right of this photograph. The two buildings which dominate this view are of very different dates.

The clock tower of the Brine Baths stands toward the end of the street, where the road is congested with buses and lorries.

Beside the ruins of the great abbey church, various monastery buildings survive, including the famous 14th-century Abbot's Kitchen and the Abbey Barn.

On the corner of Michaelgate is The Harlequin, again a good timber-framed and jettied building; it was formerly the Harlequin Inn and is now an antiquarian bookshop.

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

In 1823 the Chamber of Commerce were so concerned about the high cost of the port dues being demanded by the Bristol Dock Co that they inquired as to what charges would be levied at other ports for the

Whether it be Blackpool, Dunoon, Port Bannatyne, Port Erin or any of a hundred other resorts in the 1890s, holidaymakers had developed a passion for messing about in boats, mainly of the rowing variety

Children at play in the village of Chilworth, outside Southampton.

The centre of the village dates from the restoration and repairs begun in 1752 by Lord Crewe's trustees.