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This panoramic view is very evocative of two major factors in the city's history: the rolling hills which surround it, and the rows of terraced worker's cottages, which testify to the city's once significant

Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of quarrying and erosion.

The youthful trees on the left are in the centre of the square, where the inn sign for the old-established Duke of York Hotel is just visible.

The only traffic is a horse-drawn conveyance in this view of the cross-roads village on a ridge of the High Weald above the River Rother. Today, Stonegate is close to the Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

Now a northern suburb of Worthing, Broadwater was once a small coastal settlement.

Within the lead-mining area there were smelting mills at a number of locations, including Blagill, Nenthead, Allenhead, Jeffries, Tynehead, and Bollihope.

The sturdy building on the opposite bank of the river was put up in the 1850s as a flour mill; later it was used for textiles. After a period of dereliction, it was converted into apartments.

Here we have a closer view of the pulpitum screen. Little of the original 15th-century stonework survived Anthony Salvin's 'restoration' in 1833.

Maiden Newton's mill is probably situated on the site of many earlier mill buildings. There are records of settlements here dating back to the Roman occupation.

Southbourne maintains an air of tranquillity compared to the bustle of nearby Bournemouth.

This is holiday perfection, with breakwaters, windbreaks, donkeys, buckets, spades and plenty of sand, plus the bonus of the sunshine. What more could one ask for?

This view shows Pednolver Walk, (Lambeth Walk), its railings now firmly in place, and groups of holidaymakers enjoying the Cornish sunshine.

Walton is now part of the suburbs of Felixstowe, but a hundred years ago it was very much a village in its own right, with the occasional pony and trap the only concession to heavy traffic!

Here is a view of the River Chess winding along the floor of its flat but narrow valley, through its Chiltern landscape towards Rickmansworth near Loudwater Farm, an area much changed since this view was

An ornamental lake and a bandstand may seem to be anachronistic in a rural community, but the park has been at the heart of many successful events and family outings for most of the 20th century.

The opposite side of the road from A19709 (above) shows the new frontage of Altham's, now very much a travel firm; the tea sales are a distant memory, although the shop still occupies

This view of Waterhead shows the Waterhead Hotel, built to serve the increasing numbers of tourists who were arriving by train at the lakeside station at Bowness, and catching a steamer up

St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames.

The 'Queen of Hampshire Villages', Twyford, now a very large settlement, belonged to the See of Winchester from Saxon times.

In 1846 the Shropshire Union Canal Co was formed by the amalgamation of several companies.

This view looks towards Kingsgate Castle—now cleaned of its ivy—some 60 years after the above photograph was taken.

Some of the shops on the right of this photograph have Georgian fronts, while others date from the Queen Anne period.

It took a number of years to carry out the process of dividing up the land, laying out roads, digging drains, planting thorn hedges, improving the land, and harvesting the crops from more and more

The famous statue of Daniel O'Connell (1775 - 1847), the 'Liberator', which stands at the foot of O'Connell (in those days, Sackville) Street.