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Half a mile from Lyndhurst and yet located within the parish lies the scattered hamlet of Emery Down, surround- ed by peaceful forest glades and countryside.

The events prompted the bucolic rhyme “Chelmsford church and Writtle steeple both fell down, but killed no people”.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

Further down the road a lot of people are gathered outside Woolworth's store - perhaps they had a sale on.

It is reported that a farmer knocked down the stones in 1690. The trees have now been removed.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

A portcullis would have dropped down to close off the archway.

Situated at the top of a hill, Paul is the mother village for Mousehole down below.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

The imposing building in the left foreground is home to Lloyd's Bank; it replaced the town's Assembly Rooms in 1900.

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

It was burned down by the French in 1377 along with Rottingdean's inhabitants, who had taken shelter inside it. Even today burn marks are visible.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

We are looking down North Street from the Duke of York pub, and this scene looks much the same today. The 'Family Shop' - the post office and stores on the left - is now a watch repairer's.

Portland's position has proved important for the defence of southern England down the centuries.

Bridge Street slopes down to the river Mole and the 14-arch bridge of 1782.

An early motor car is driven proudly down the middle of the road in Liskeard's centre.

In 1892 the town's sewage works was opened.

Boscombe was built across a wooded chine, a wide ravine, that leads down to the sea; chines are common on this coast.

Laid down at Sheerness in 1895, engined by Clydebank, and completed in 1897, 'Pelorus' was the lead ship for a class on the Cape Station before transferring to the East Indies.

Trains from Scarborough crossed the viaduct, stopped at West Cliff and then reversed steeply down beneath the viaduct into Whitby.

These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which the men named on them were drawn.

It captures the designs of the tents and caravans of the period, all set down at apparent random, a far cry from what is normally seen on campsites today.