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The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

This view shows the junction of Boar Lane and Briggate, looking towards the Corn Exchange. In the 17th century Leeds held its cloth fairs at the bottom end of Briggate every Tuesday and Saturday.

A little further west, at the start of the Embankment Gardens, Frith's photographer has not quite got his focus correct. The urn on its pedestal was renewed in 1948.

At the beginning of the 20th century Leeds had four theatres, including the Grand, which is featured on the right-hand side of the picture.

This view shows the junction of Boar Lane and Briggate, looking towards the Corn Exchange. In the 17th century Leeds held its cloth fairs at the bottom end of Briggate every Tuesday and Saturday.

A fine view of the magnificent Neo-classical interior of the Pro-cathedral, showing the nave and aisles with heavy Doric pillars. The aisles have been extended since this picture was taken.

The Half Way House Hotel is on the corner of Storeton Road and Woodchurch Road out towards Prenton.

Lynn's market place is one of the very finest in England, enriched by a profusion of Georgian and Victorian public buildings, including the florid Corn Exchange built in 1854.

The house on the left has been given rough repairs for generations - its toppling dormer lacks several panes of glass. Wells has suffered more than most Norfolk towns from the impact of incomers.

The Thames Embankment, which skirts the front of Cheyne Walk, was created by Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Constructed over mud flats, it conceals the sewers that were once a scourge of the locality.

The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view. The venerable Austin Seven must be about twenty years old at the time of this photograph.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

In the distance, the tower of St Paul's church peers above the roof of the Globe Hotel. Nearby is the Perse School, established in 1625, and moved here from Free School Lane in 1890.

Dating mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries, and with a lofty spire dating from the time of Agincourt, the church of All Saints was extensively restored in 1862 by the Reverend W H Lowder, who had

One of the most famous shipyards was that of John Scott, which built the first steamer to trade between Glasgow and Liverpool.

This view, with something of a frontier town feel in 1890, is now the brashly cheery High Street. At this time, though, it is much more sedate.

East of the town, on the Louth Road, is Lincolnshire's only racecourse, since Lincoln's closed some years ago.

Begun by William Lord Hastings in 1480, and never finished, Kirby Muxloe is an early example of the use of brick in castle building.

The tower stands tall and proud, and it is not difficult to understand why St Margaret's was one of several beacons forming a connection with other churches from London to the coast.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green.

A bridge of 1764 was replaced by this one of white brick and stone in 1798. The floods of 1939 resulted in a new single span bridge being erected.

Pevsner says of Great Budworth that it is 'one of the best pieces of villagescape in the county. Yet there is hardly a house that would need a close look'.

It was built in 1610 by John Hall, a clothier; in 1847 it became the home of the Moulton family, who founded the rubber manufacturing business.

The terraced houses and cobbled street of Long Row at Belper is one of the many legacies left by Jedediah Strutt who, with Richard Arkwright, brought industry to the town in the late 18th century.