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Both the 800-tonne Swing Aqueduct and the swing road bridge have been opened to allow the passage of a steamer on the MSC.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.

The advent of the power-loom, however, brought about a decline, but by 1900 new industries had sprung up, including printing at Locher Mill, a laundry at Glentyan Mill and flax and paper mills at Johnstone

Within two years 1,000 houses were built, and by 1954 an average of ten new residents were moving into Hemel Hempstead every day.

North of Saxmundham, Yoxford was once a coaching stop on the London to Great Yarmouth route.

Standing outside the village Post Office on the left, the bewiskered elderly man leaning on two sticks and wearing a bowler hat was probably a figure of some status in the village, where there were a

The town of Richmond grew up round the Norman castle, which was begun around the year 1071 by Alan Rufus, a son of the Duke of Brittany, and William the Conqueror's man in these parts.

It cost £9,000 to build, paid for by Mr John Walter II, proprietor of The Times newspaper, whose daughter Catherine died at the age of 23 in 1844.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

These are the ruins of Bromholm Priory, founded in 1113. It was famous for possessing 'the Holy Rood of Bromholm', said to be part of the true Cross.

Anyone familiar with the centre of Winchester will know the station approach. One feature that sets this scene apart from that of today is the amount of advertising.

On the summit of Castle Crag, in the centre of the photograph, are the remains of an early British fort.

the then new block of shops included a Fine Fare supermarket, once a prominent chain locally. Almost off camera on the right is Stantons music store - a place of wonderment for many in their youth.

Two miles south east of Rotherham,Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This view looks from the garden of the Old School House, built in about 1850, and once the village school, of course.

Moving north of the Checker and across Abbey Close and into Abbey Gardens, we reach the site of the abbey church, which was about 300 feet long, and the cloisters and monastic buildings.

When this market hall was built a number of houses, shops and even a church were demolished to make way for it.

Dartford is an ancient market-town which grew into a busy industrial centre on the River Darent, at the point where it was crossed by the Roman Watling Street, parts of which lie buried four feet beneath

Northleach lies between Cheltenham and Burford, and most of this former wool town's buildings date from Tudor and Jacobean days.

This delightful street is named after the watch bell which hung here and was rung to warn inhabitants of approach- ing French raids.

The church beyond is St Michael's, rebuilt in 1901 to the design of Sir Arthur Blomfield, who was also the architect of the Bank of England in London.

In the middle of this collection of buildings is a pub called the Admiral Rodney.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still

Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road. The sandy rocks of Burton Cliffs project towards Lyme Bay (left).