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The town grew during the 1840s with the sinking of the first coal mine in the locality.

The market town of Haltwhistle straddles the present-day A69 a few miles from the border with Cumbria.

Dronfield lies midway between Chesterfield and Sheffield, and has developed as a commuter town for both.

Interesting that the Post Office is spelled without the hyphens, but spellings, as we have noted, are a peculiar Welsh idiosyncrasy and every town, village and street can have a slightly or totally dissimilar

Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.

Four thousand years ago, Iron Age folk lived in and around the hillforts of Maiden Castle, Poundbury and the other fortifications of this part of Dorset.

The Temperance movement was as significant here as it was in many Welsh towns. A boy is displaying an impressive basket of shellfish and an enormous flatfish.

Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

This town was once a shipbuilding centre and the chief port of Merioneth, with a large trade in flannel and knitted stockings. Today the Three Peaks Race starts here.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

The houses of Middleborough grew up beyond the town walls and the north gate, which was demolished in 1823.

These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which the men named on them were drawn.

Many of the students who trained here were later employed in the glass industry for which the town is so well known.

Touring caravan sites are now popular, and several are clustered in this northern area of town.

Godalming was initially an industrial town, noted for its cloth making. On the left of the cobbled High Street, notably devoid of any traffic, is Edward's Drug Store, which later passed to Boots.

The action-packed scene that is a town street in Edwardian days, with plenty of people going about their business; the only traffic is horse-drawn vehicles.

The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town. Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

St Mary's Church, the oldest in the town, is Norman in origin, and probably stands on the site of an earlier Saxon building.

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street. In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775.

This is a typical atmospheric Georgian hotel on the steep hill up through the town.

Here we see the town bridge in Maidenhead with an elegant steamer - the 'Empress of India' - tied up in the foreground.

There were around 160 shops in the town centre by this time, and the Development Corporation had turned their attention to providing Basildon with a health centre, and also police, fire and ambulance stations

As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.