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Taken from Lock 43 looking towards Devizes, this photograph shows Lock 44 and a cottage, and also one of the pounds — a pound is an area for the storage of water.

Even at this time Compstall Road, along with Stockport Road, had long been at the commercial heart of the town.

Belford is just one of many places in Northumberland that suffered during the cross-border raids that were a feature of life in the North for several centuries.

This is one of Kent's most haunted villages. Ghost hunter Andrew Green recently looked into these tales for a new book, and found only one haunting still allegedly occurring.

It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

Our look at the fine schools of Bedford moves north beyond St Peter's Square to Bedford School. This had its origins in the free school founded by Sir William Harpur in 1566.

C i t y A t t r a c t i o n s and the smell of gas mantles being lit'. So much of the old has gone; it could never have coped with modern demands and numbers.

St Columba was a member of the O'Neill clan; he left Ireland after the battle of Cuil-dremne.

In 1645 old Thomas Wright was ejected from the living, presumably because of his known Royalist sympathies and his refusal to give up using the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

The town was fortunate to have a number of County Schools. The national school was attended by 200 boys and girls.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

Away from the bustle of the main Scarborough road lies the secluded village of Gristhorpe. Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages.

A beam from the year of the Spanish Armada was found in the remains of the old church.

Robin Hood's Bay is now half the size of the original village - the centre section slid into the sea, taking with it the new road.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

This has been the home of the Bagot family since 1367, although the building we see here dates from between the 16th and the 19th century.

The Dudley Zoological Society was founded in 1935 to develop a zoo in the environs of Dudley Castle, and the Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) was engaged to design the buildings

To the right the ivy-clad house is now a shop, Tendring Garden, and of course now without the railings.

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

Situated on the island between the river and the mill stream is the Cosenor's House, now mainly 18th- and 19th-century, but replacing a medieval building.

Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.

There is a good range of Tudor and 17th-century timber- framed houses on the right, all with rendered fronts.