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Buses still use the Broadway and Northbrook Street but today traffic cannot use the section of the latter thoroughfare much beyond Wheelers Garage during the daytime.

An ornate 19th-century fountain graces the park.This is one of three parks in Darwen, all very different.

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925.

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost-story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

Built in the the 1820s, this house was known as Beckington Place. By the time it was bought by Sir George Samuel Brooke Pechell in 1867, it had become Alton House.

There could not be anywhere more northern-sounding than Mytholmroyd, the woollen village crammed into the bottom of the Calder Valley west of Halifax.

The red brick building is Lloyd's Bank, dated 1879.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

The magnificent St Mary Redcliffe owes much to the generosity of William Canynge the elder (died 1396), and his grandson William Canynge the younger (1394?-1474).

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

The clear, shallow and gently-flowing waters of the River Allen, fed by the natural chalk reservoirs of Cranborne Chase, make it an ideal habitat for rushes, and commercial rush-cutting flourished here

This charmingly-situated little watering-place lies in a sheltered valley, and its garden-girt villas are further beautified by a sparkling brook, spanned by numerous rustic bridges.

Brooke Cottage was the place to visit for parents and children alike if they had a sweet tooth, for it was formerly the village sweet shop and store. Next door there was a shoe shop and cobbler's.

A product of the increasing urbanisation of Dinas Powis at the close of the 19th century, Mill Road preserves the name of the nearby Mill Farm.

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

The quiet little seaside town of Selsey was once part of a small island.

Redevelopment of Daventry began in the early sixties under a scheme to house Birmingham overspill population.

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

A view that has changed more than in the previous two. The two 18th century buildings on the left are still there, as is the smaller one beyond.

We are looking towards the corner of Island Road, with Brook and Williams's printers and bookbinder's shop and works on the right; this block of shops later became one of the first department stores in

The line of concrete lamp standards, surmounted by the new sodium streetlights, delineates the edges of the A24 as it ascends from its crossing over the Pyl brook towards Morden.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

On the right by the pillar box is a circulating library; across the street is the Lantern Bakery, next door to H Brooks, grocer and Italian warehouseman.

Castle Combe was originally the site of a Roman villa; the Normans built a castle here, and for centuries the village was a centre for cloth weaving.