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This view has changed little, although the pub's black and white walls have been painted over.

This is how the village must have looked when the writer Eric Parker passed this way while researching his book 'Highways & Byways in Surrey', published in 1908.

For 400 years, until the family line died out, the influential Shireburnes lived at Stonyhurst. Each generation made changes.

Castle Road leads to the Square. The chimney stack in the distance is that of Cookley Iron Works. The Red Lion public house (right) opened after 1830, along with the Eagle and Spur Inn.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

Construction of Colchester Castle is thought to have started around 1080, and in 1101 it was granted to Eudo the Steward by Henry I.

Impressive as this memorial to Viscount Leverhulme is, it should not be forgotten that there is another, and a very live one, on the Western Isles.

The castle is now much restored by the Marquis of Bute, with its water defences reinstated. The original castle was begun by Gilbert de Clare.

The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners. By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks.

The smith's main task was the shoeing of horses, but he turned his hand to a great variety of jobs that involved the working of metal.

When Frith's photographer went to Belfast it was not his intention to record its industries, but he knew he had to take note of the fame of the fabric known world-wide as Irish Linen.

It is the smallest Norman keep in England, and last saw action at the end of the Civil War, when Colonel Ashton's forces barricaded themselves in the castle demanding the pay that was owed them.

Having built the pier, the next move by Peter Bruff and the directors of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company was to build a hotel.

But Godard, wishing to rule, kills the King's daughters and instructs a local warrior and fisherman, Grim, to drown Havelock at sea.

However, all this changed with the coming of the railways.

The Harrison Drive Baths were opened in 1932 by Lord Derby, and were hence known as the Derby Baths. The New Brighton Swimming Pool opened in 1934 and became very popular with visitors.

Exmouth is reputed to be the oldest seaside town in Devon. People from Exeter used the sea and sands, the only good bathing beach in the east, back in the early seventeenth century.

Haverthwaite village is in two parts, but they are quite close together. The village pump on the left, by Pump Cottage, is dated 1765 and bears the initials BB.

The village itself is a mix of stone and local brick, as in the terrace on the right.

On the right we can see a finger post pointing to the church.

The pub pictured here, the Spinner and Bergamot, was built in 1792, and is named after two racehorses.

The Baths, opened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895, used brine recently discovered under Stafford Common during the search for a good water supply.

Although most associate Bath's waters with the Georgian or Roman period, the spring-fed baths were very popular in Tudor and Stuart times.

On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.