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Caption For Helston, The Moors 1890

This picture was probably taken just down the road from Penventon Farm.

Caption For Margate, View On The Jetty 1887

Even as late as 1957 the 'Royal Daffodil' carried 144,000 passengers down to Margate in a ten-week period.

Caption For Abbey Dore, Dore Abbey C1965

Like many abbeys and monasteries up and down the country, this former Cistercian monastery was dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII.

Caption For Powerscourt, Cascade 1890

The River Dargle falls down a precipice of about 300 ft, and this has long been a popular spot with sightseers.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, Victorian Graving Dock And Museum 2004

The highly skilled workforce is still here; it is the scale of operations that has been reduced, as the industrial complexes in Barrow-in-Furness have slimmed down to remain competitive and efficient

Caption For Kendal, Highgate, Sandes Hospital Gatehouse 1914

This view looks down Branthwaite Brow towards the River Kent.

Caption For Devizes, Hartmoor 1899

The unsurfaced roads and thickly wooded banks climb down the steep slopes at the end of the Vale of Pewsey.

Caption For Ilkley, Ben Rhydding 1886

We are now high above the famous Cow and Calf Rocks looking down the eastern side of Ilkley with the Ben Rhydding Hydro dominating the original hamlet of Wheatley, which was renamed once the hydro opened

Caption For Horningsham, Old Cottages C1955

They are set slightly below road level, and are reached by steps down. The thatch remains in excellent condition, and so do the porches. The picket fence has been extended to replace the hedging.

Caption For Albury, The Village C1950

This was indeed once the place where paupers and those down on their luck could seek food and a roof over their head.

Caption For Doncaster, Baxtergate 1903

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

Caption For Ilkley, Cow And Calf Rocks 1886

Nearly 5 inches fell; water cascaded down the ghylls dragging huge boulders in its wake, causing over £100,000 worth of damage to Ilkley.

Caption For Amberley, Castle Courtyard 1896

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Caption For Walsall, The Bridge 2005

As the town grew, Digbeth stretched from the High Street down to a small open stream running through the valley bottom.

Caption For Kettering, High Street 1922

Meanwhile a butcher's boy cycles down the middle of the High Street, a reminder that delivery to the door was expected in 1922.

Caption For Chelmsford, High Street 1895

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.