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Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855. A little way beyond, set back from the road, is the Brown Cow.

Before the advent of cheap, foreign package holidays, Lancashire resorts and beaches continued to draw summer crowds, with donkeys and deckchairs here completing a traditional British scene.

On the left is the King Edward VII Memorial Hall of 1914, with pleasure gardens behind. The building with two gables is the White Hart, damaged in the air raid of 18 February 1941.

A low, clapper-style footbridge across the River Wye in Monsal Dale leads to the hamlet of Upperdale, which we can see across the river.

Bethesda, a village born of slate and the workings of the Penrhyn Quarry, has always had a vibrant community.

The Fortune of War stands on a roundabout on the busy Southend Arterial Road. It is an impressive building, and always attracted many customers.

Clumber Park, like Rufford, is heavily wooded; it was enclosed out of Sherwood Forest, that great forest that extends from Worksop southwards almost to Nottingham.

The building dividing the junction was built in 1739 as a toll-house, but since the late 1930s it has been the home of Hudson's ice cream.

The town's reputation for its fine market harks back to the 14th century, when the first rights were granted to the abbot of Cockersands.

Attractive flower beds and shrubberies surround an ornamental lake, which draws large numbers of water birds.

Spanning the narrow street of this hill-top village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, ancient gateway to the castle, which lies ruinous close

The right-hand side of the street has changed almost beyond recognition over the years. Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico.

Dating only from 1737, Hanley was a township in the parish of Stoke until 1857.

We are looking westwards to the Victorian skyline of Westgate and along the cliffs to Ledge Point.At the time this picture was taken,Tower House Retreat at Westgate, founded in 1879, was the only

Sandwiched between St Nicholas Street and the old market place at Cross Cheaping, Bishop Street was one of Coventry's main shopping thoroughfares.

This is a small village beside an old Roman route through the Worth Forest.The Church of All Saints was built in 1843.

King Charles II is said to have taken refreshments here in 1651 while fleeing from the Battle of Worcester.

Locals soon found a nick-name for our end-of-the-pier Victorian edifice.

Bridge Cottage Tea Parlour (centre) doubled as a newsagent's under the ownership of Edgar Allen, and also advertised a wide range of entertainments, from 'Viva Zapata' at the Lyric Cinema, Bridport, to

Crown House provides a view of London Road and Morden Court and the slightly earlier mock Tudor York Close to the left.

In the days when the village had two MPs (before the Reform Act of 1832), election day was something to behold.

The volume of mail soared after the railway came in 1865, and so as not to confuse it with Crawley, the Post Office soon had the name changed to the spelling used today.

At the end of the war there were 520 girls on the registers, many of whom will remember the headmistress, Miss J C Simpson, who presided until 1962.

Although fifty years have passed the centre of Coulsdon is easily recognisable, although the forthcoming replacement of the Red Lion will dramatically alter appearances.