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Though it has been added to in recent decades, the Rising Sun Hotel is easily recognisable from this photograph of 40 years ago. It has long been a popular venue with the racing fraternity.

Martin`s Bank (centre left), on the left of Yorkshire Street, has lost its turret and other roof top features during modernisation and the Midland Bank has been cleaned.

On the right of the photograph are various businesses, including Barclays Bank, a tobacconist, a hardware store and a dairy.

Guest houses such as this one were once a common feature of villages; many no longer serve the same purpose.

This was a very welcome staging post for travellers and horses making the strenuous journey between Cirencester and Stroud by way of Minchinhampton Common.

A number of scheduled steamer services linked Dublin to England and Scotland.

The drinking fountain, which still survives, was presented to the park by Alderman William Smith, the third Mayor of Accrington.

Here we see the bandstand in Ellington gardens (now Ellington Park) a century ago: the magnificent trees and floral displays of this 12-acre open space are seen to advantage in this evocative picture

The trees on the green in the estate village of Bolton Abbey at the entrance to Wharfedale had just been subjected to a severe pollarding when the Frith photographer called to take this photograph.

Frederick Holmes Cooper created them, as well as arboreta and, of course, tea-rooms and a restaurant.

This range of 18th- and 19th-century cottages, some thatched, look across to the parish church, whose churchyard wall can be seen on the left. The village hardware shop is now the Alfresco Restaurant.

The battlemented spire of St James' parish church rises above the village centre at Bonsall, and its Perpendicular style dates it mainly from the 13th century.

Modern excursion boats are diesel rather than steam, and have propellers instead of paddle wheels.

The ivy-clad Red Lion Hotel is the main hostelry in Burnsall, standing adjacent to the village green in the heart of the village. Note the neat, gritstone cottages with their slabbed, gritstone roofs.

This view has not changed much in the intervening years, but note the absense of road markings.

Opened in 1937 and set within the castle grounds, the zoo, with over 400 species, became one of the best in the country.

It seems it is traditional to pose in front of the fountain in the large expanse that is the park. A delivery boy sits between two less interested young men.

The Monsal Head Hotel commands one of the finest and most photographed views in the Peak District, extending across the Monsal Dale Viaduct towards Fin Cop, and north towards Upperdale.

The school was originally located in premises opposite the parish church, but had moved to its present site to the south of the town by 1750; rebuilding began in 1809.

This impressive building was the Parkstone branch of the Wiltshire and Dorset Bank. The roads around Parkstone are much busier these days, encouraging journeys on foot or using public transport.

There are no smooth tarmac roads; few family cars dominate the gardens; there are no telephone poles, and above all no television aerials in this snapshot of post-war suburbia.

A short flight in this light aircraft, even just a few hundred feet up, would give the sightseeing holidaymaker a marvellous view of both the coastline and the Broads inland.

Part of Hastings' early success was due to the picturesque scenery beyond the town to the east, with rugged coastal scenery deep cut with glens, woodland walks and cliff paths.

In 1902, bumpers of sulphuric and chalybeate were dispensed here from seven o'clock in the morning onwards. After taking the first glass, a mild constitutional in Valley Gardens was recommended.