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Here the wording on the banner has been changed to 'Ye Olde Starre Inne'.

Ugly new street furniture in the form of electric street lamps begin to make an appearance.

The thatched house (now demolished) is The Glen, the scene in 1884 of the murder of Emma Keyse by her handyman John Lee.

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

An excellent view of the Old Bridge with the castle in the background.

The grave of Field Marshal Montgomery, who died in 1976, is in the churchyard, and his banner hangs in the nave of the church.

A small group (centre left), seeking the shade of mature trees in the hot summer of 1921, faces the photographer.

They robbed farmers, and marched to Ely in protest. On their return they were cornered in the George Inn. They were tried at Ely: many were transported to Australia, and five were publicly hanged.

On 23 January 1570, Regent Moray was shot as he rode through Linlithgow. The assassin hid in a house belonging to John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews.

The buildings on the left of picture No 40722 have now been replaced by a new Swan Tap, and the Swan is advertising its garage.

A short stroll from the toll bridge brings you to the little church of St Mary's.

Looking at the lifeboat hanging from the davits (presumably there was one on the other side), one is tempted to wonder whether they would have been sufficient to cope in an emergency if this paddle steamer

Littleport is distinguished as being the last place on which the Bishop of Ely exercised his temporal powers.

The ferry is pulled by a chain across the Ouse; at this time villagers used the ferry to go to work in Over or to cycle to Cambridge.

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

The church interior is shown here just a few years after it had been built, looking towards the east window.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

The most conspicuous feature here is the 15th-century font cover (right). The pulpit, with its sounding-board and slender oak stem (centre right), dates from the 1680s.

This photograph was taken around lunchtime, and parked cars are beginning to congest the scene.

The building on the left was Mr Lemon the vet's, and has a horse's tail hanging at the far end. To the right with the bay window is the sweet shop run by the King family until the 1980s.

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.The inn is a 13th-century timber-framed brick and flint building.

Numerous buildings, including the church, the Royal Oak dining rooms, the Union Hotel and the Alexandra Hotel, indicate the importance of Ramsey harbour as the second largest in the Isle of Man.

The hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', was seduced and bigamously married