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Many of the original buildings of Winchester College remain, and are still used by today's pupils. The college chapel was originally consecrated around the year 1394.

However, the Charter of the Lord Protector Cromwell, granted 26 February 1656, was to be of importance to the development of the town.

Broadmead runs between Union Street and Penn Street, and was a part of the regeneration of the city centre following the destruction of the Second World War.

A child gazes wistfully into the tranquil waters of the River Anton, a tributary of the Test, which rises to the north of Andover and runs through the heart of the town.

A magnificent view of the 68ft high nave at Christchurch. On the north side the walls are about two feet out of true because of subsidence and the collapse of the south walls in 1569.

Gunpowder Gunpowder, which was invented during the first half of the 14th century, is a mixture of potassium nitrate (saltpetre), charcoal, and sulphur in a ratio of 75:15:10.

Unfortunately the tiny saddleback tower of the old church was now seriously out of proportion to the new, larger church.

The Hospital of the Order of St John the Baptist is situated at the junction of the Lower High Street and St John`s Street and by St John`s Bridge.

An attractive garden borders the river in front of the Swan Hotel. Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

This photograph, taken from the tower of the Town Hall, looks down past the formal square to the buildings of Bishop Street, which include the reference library by Edward Burgess of 1904 and the former

Most of the islanders at that time were extremely poor, and like the inhabitants of other coastal areas saw smuggling as a way of augmenting their poverty-stricken existence.

This is the frontage of Wykes Court when it was the home of Major George Murray Dammer.

One of All Saints' best-known features is the memorial window depicting characters from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' stories.

The Sessions House on William Brown Street is pictured here just three years after it opened. Designed by F & G Holme, its original purpose has now been forgotten.

This broad open space at the heart of the city is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

Time stands still in this peaceful view of the village; but on 12 March 1470, the Battle of Loscote Field, one of many during the Wars of the Roses, was fought in the parish.

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

On the night of 14 November 1940, German bombs destroyed the ancient cathedral church of St Michael.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

At the time of the photograph the building was known as Abbey Farm; it had been the home of the Higgins family since 1786.

The main body of the church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries, and was here in 1180.

Pevsner in The Buildings of England says of Caldy: 'Cheshire is something of a Surrey of the North, but Surrey has nothing to compare with this'.