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These women players are at a considerable disadvantage with their long, billowing dresses and broad-brimmed headgear.

The view is northwards to the Old Boathouse in the Square, and the Assembly Rooms beside Bell Cliff at the bottom of Broad Street, which were pulled down in 1928.

While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late

This broad open space at the heart of the city is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

One of the most frequently-painted sites on the Broads was the old Acle Bridge with its three arches, which we see here. The bridge has frequently been rebuilt - repairs were first recorded in 1101.

The town of Bodiam is dominated by one of the most picturesque castles in England, set within a broad moat filled with golden carp.

In the broad High Street old inns, houses, small shops and buildings in honey-coloured local stone jostle in a medley of complementary styles.

The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

The village of Hampstead Norris nestles in a shallow valley, the buildings dominated by the short broad tower of St Mary's church in the background.

The capital of the Broads is Wroxham which is just across the bridge. It is a popular starting point for boating holidays which grew rapidly in the early years of this century.

Here we see the broad market place, with its pleasing facades of 17th- and 18th-century slate-roofed buildings.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

This broad parade, named after Queen Victoria, runs along the East Cliff in front of Wellington Crescent and the lawns.

Stanhill is a small community on one of the B-roads between Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn. It was in this building in 1764 that James Hargreaves lived when he invented the Spinning Jenny.

Originally a simple Norman construction, it was enlarged many times and given a neo-Gothic interior after the War, with broad aisles. Fortunately, the town still has one fine historic church - St?

This broad open space is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.