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The banks beside the road show how it has eroded with use over hundreds of years; because of this the houses and small cottages on Church Street have steps down to the pavement.

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

East of the M25 and the older River Wey Navigation, Byfleet is a suburban village; although it is built along winding lanes, it is architecturally disappointing.

Behind the coastline are beautiful gardens and walks to attractive spots in the locality, such as Bembridge Down and the Culver Cliffs.

Once many villages were clustered around the village pond, and this shot of Finningley in South Yorkshire shows it was no exception.

In the early 1900s the road was widened and the market house and several buildings in the same row were built to the designs of W J Tamlyn.

We have our backs to the Red Lion, and are looking down the A257 Sandwich and Deal road, with Lloyds Bank clearly visible on the right.

This photograph is taken from across the River Medway and showing Victorians strolling along the Undercliff walk and the 'horseway' path down to the river Medway, and Victorian children leaning on the

This late Victorian scene of the High Street typifies a more tranquil era, where the only signs of traffic pollution appear to be from the passing of the pony and trap further down the road!

Imagine the different noises, smells and preoccupations of the people seen in L117011 in the long-lost world of 1950s Britain.

Imagine the different noises, smells and preoccupations of the people seen in L117011 in the long-lost world of 1950s Britain.

In the original cottages there were usually two rooms on the upslope side of the passage and a 'shippon' (cow shed) on the downslope side.

At the west end of the High Street, London Road curves away north-west downhill.

By 1839, the parish church of Holy Trinity was becoming a little run down.

This view looking east down Colne Road in the main street of the village of Cowling, near Keighley, shows the prominent monuments of Wainman's Pinnacle and Lund's Tower on the escarpment of Earl Crag on

It is clearly high summer and the horrors of World War One were still unknown to these two, even if not for long.

for Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Goodwood House was designed by James Wyatt and includes in its structure parts of a previous house built in 1720.

It was built to help ships navigating the River Lune and to guide ships to Glasson docks - it was not built for the benefit of Barrow-in-Furness, as the town was only a small fishing hamlet at the time

Virtually every shop in the picture has since either moved elsewhere in the city centre or closed down altogether: Marks and Spencer moved to New Canal, and Woolworths to the High Street.

The wide and elegant Station Street leads down to the porticoed entrance of the railway station.

Regular performers included the Royal Marine Band; the Bandstand was hit during the blitz and subsequently pulled down.

This great peak gives some shelter to the little village of Seatown - a tiny resort of cottages and caravans just down the road from Chideock.

The others are Finkle Street and Stramongate. This view looks down Branthwaite Brow towards the River Kent.

This photograph was taken further down the road and two years earlier than photograph 61439. Buildings clad in white weatherboarding line the road, which is quite steep for horse-drawn transport.