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The steep, winding and narrow High Street (down which flaming tar barrels were rolled to the terror of the populace until the practice was banned in 1824) gives an excellent impression of

The sign on Brown & Seymour's shop beyond reads 'smoke Musketeer tobacco'.

The sign on Brown & Seymour's shop beyond reads 'smoke Musketeer tobacco'.

This is a similar view to photograph I42002, but facing the other way and taken after a substantial interval.

The black-and-white timbered building on the left of the picture is Old Mother Redcap's Inn, steeped in history, with stories of shipwrecks, sailor's gold and smugglers.

The Frith photographer's desire to take views of post offices has led him to ignore the beautifully-situated village centre around its green and also the good 1879 church, designed, built and

At almost three-quarters of a mile in length, it was the second-longest pier in England after Southend's, but was damaged by a severe storm in 1978 and pulled down the following year.

The high viewpoint emphasises the rich woodland of the vale, with the prominent solid block of the present Rydal Hall, built in the 17th century, and the church of 1824.

Skelton Lane leads down through the commercial centre of Brotton.

The T-junction and the church are just ahead. Whalley had an abbey once, and that fact distracts from the importance of the church here.

The chequered brick and weather boarded cottage (right) is Barclays Bank; it opened in 1910 in what was then the front room of a cottage. The bank was to stay here until 1999.

It was built mainly in the 12th to the 14th centuries, but exhibits work of every period down to the present day.

St Peter's stands in meadows beside the Usk, to the left of the A40 and just beyond the western outskirts of Abergavenny.

Built in 1704, St Peter's was a very popular church and well attended.

They planned that the town would be a little way inland and separate from the dock area.

About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

The dome of the Infirmary is on the left, and Lewis's tower is in the centre.

Like the other areas of Eccles and Salford, Monton likes to keep its own identity.

Then, freight was trans-shipped into small 5-ton tubs with wheels.

She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes.

Messrs Parke & White of 45 Broadgate (extreme left) closed in 1958, and the site is now the new and expanded Lincoln City Library. The road is now divided, with crossing places for pedestrians.

Sited on an old cattle market, the Sands Leisure Centre was opened in 1983 to provide much valued modern gym and leisure facilities, as well as acting as a well-used venue for theatre and musical

Humanity ordained that the soldiers received basic nursing care, but many of them could not be nursed back to health, and died in a foreign land without family to mourn them.