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Victorian visitors had a number of inns to choose from when seeking sustenance in the town, some acting as fully-fledged hotels.

This bustling scene reveals the pressures for change that beset the Victorian provincial town in the 1890s. This street of small shops is showing signs of commercialism.

To reach this popular bathing cove with its old inn, travellers must thread a path down a deep lane between hills bright with heather and wild flowers.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

It is a listed building and is described as '2 storeys, rough cast on brick with thatch roof, the eaves swept down on west side to form veranda with flint and rubble columns'.

A century after his visit, the town had been transformed from a quiet village to a vibrant part of the textile industry.

It is amazing that this headland, notoriously dangerous and strewn with shipwrecks down the centuries, did not have any permanent lighthouse until the Belle Tout was erected in 1832.

This is down-town Lydney in the days when books could be loaned from the newsagents for a few coppers a week via the Argosy Lending Library, and a liquid night out at the Fleece could be had for less than

Rottingdean has a long history; it is named after the valley - 'dene' - which runs down to the sea. The view has not changed substantially in the past 30 years.

Unfortunately, it was blown down in a gale in 1980. Of the five pubs that used to be found in the village, only the Fountain Inn, pictured here, survives today.

The original railway station building with its clock tower, the terminus of the line from Ulverston, looks down Lake Windermere.

A country lane, a straggle of houses and open countryside is all we see as we look down Collier Row Road with the Church of the Ascension on the right.

Much of the original castle burnt down in 1726, and what was left was plundered by Prince Charles Edward's men in 1745 - they also plundered the town.

This is a view of the same street looking down the hill. Notice how in this and the other pictures of Whitchurch, the street lights are suspended above the centre of the street.

Pictured from the junction with the main road, the lane leads down past the cottages towards the village school.

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

Paul is the mother village for Mousehole, which lies down on the coast below.

The Friendship Rowing club have moved their pontoon down river from their previous anchorage, as seen in

Here he wrote down 'Bushes and Briars', which he heard sung by villagers.

It is in fact the surviving chancel of a larger building thrown down in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The famous South Downs Way long-distance trail runs along the top.

In direct contrast to the over-populated coastal plain, the South Downs remained relatively deserted for centuries, for sheep require very few human guardians.

Looking down the High Street towards the river and Saluation Square. Note the tobacconist on the left advertising Players No 3 and the canisters outside Stephen & Fred Green on the right.

Looking down towards St Andrew's Street, with First Court, the oldest part of Christ's College, in the distance. The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.