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One of the favourite venues for Nottingham people - the embankment steps on a warm summer's day attracting families and swans.

The town's first library was situated in one of the houses in York Terrace.

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

In contrast to the impressively wide and well-built promenades to be seen in Llandudno and elsewhere, the fallen rubble wall on the left here and the submerged groynes give the impression

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

Erlestoke is on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain and offers views that can still be recognised from this photograph.

Since the part-pedestrianisation of South Street, Western Road has become a major traffic route lined with bus stops, its pavements crowded with scurrying shoppers.

Looking through the Gate in to the Close, a notice on the doors is a reminder that they are shut every night at 11pm.

This inn survives in Southwark; it is now in the care of the National Trust. The building, dating from 1676, is now London's only galleried inn.

After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

The statue was later relocated to the top of Nevill Street.

Alfington is a tiny village alongside the river Otter, north of Ottery St Mary.

The Unicorn is one of several beautiful, old timber inns in Weobley.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

This peaceful parkland, with trees overhanging the carefully channelled waterway, was the creation of the local 17th-century Quaker poet and writer John Scott, who came to Ware from Bermondsey and used

Here we see another view of the bleak and unappealing shopping precinct, constructed when the town's population numbered less than twenty thousand people; it appears less incongruous when viewed alongside

According to an inscription on one of the octagonal piers, the north aisle was built in 1593, although a church must have existed here much earlier as the font is 13th-century.

Its worshippers must have seen a great variety of ships and boats use the estuary far below.

Its worshippers must have seen a great variety of ships and boats use the estuary far below.

By 1914 the Cinema De Luxe had a rival 200 yards away, the Whitehall, which prominently advertises its wares to the fascination of passers-by.

One of Askrigg's main industries was clockmaking, and it is said that more timepieces were made here than anywhere else in the North Riding.

This is a petrifying well, similar to the one at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects which fall into it.

All except the building on the far left survive now, although Daniell and Sons is now The Stockwell Arms pub.

In years gone by, the river Parrett carried a large volume of traffic.