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Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

This is the quadrangle of Owen's College, with the gateway out to Oxford Road on the right of the picture. In 1886-7 the Museum part of the college was among the buildings added to the complex.

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

In the backgound are the ruins of Bolton Castle, which was built by Richard Scrope in the 1380s.

Our third tour starts in Shalford, in effect a suburb of Guildford on the east side of the River Wey where the Tillingbourne meets it.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

This is the same scene as photograph No 37890 in the opposite direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

The town is most famous now for its annual international eisteddfod, one of the high spots of the cultural calendar in Wales.

Moving east we reach Coleshill, a mile south of Amersham.

Kilton Castle, seat of the de Thweng family, lies in the immediate neighbourhood. The population of Brotton grew from 330 in 1861 to 2672 in 1871 as a result of the discovery of local ironstone.

By the 1890s it was not just the hulls of merchant sailing ships that were being constructed of iron or steel; many also carried steel masts, spars and fittings.

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

The area south-east of the city was marshy and virtually undeveloped until its draining after the Witham Act of 1812.

The unique, richly-carved granite exterior of St Mary's is one of the glories of the town.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

The unique, richly-carved granite exterior of St Mary's is one of the glories of the town.

Winchcombe lies on the high ground to the north-east of Cheltenham; its street pattern suggests its origins as an important Saxon town, once the capital of the kingdom of Mercia.

Bisley stands high on a hillside to the north of the River Frome; it has a wonderful assortment of winding streets and rooftops at different levels, as though the village has grown out of the landscape

The Norman tower of St Michael's parish church watches over the busy Market Place of Malton, which is filled with cars in this photograph.

Motorists drive this way today to visit the shell keep of the medieval castle standing high above the Fowey valley.