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Drake's Island was originally known as St Nicholas Island; it was owned by the Priors of Plympton, who used it as a rabbit warren.

Here some youngsters enjoy a spot of angling in the mill stream.

Outwell and Upwell together make up one large village running for four miles along the old course of the river Nene.

Perhaps it is not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, but Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

It is over sixty years after photograph No 32202, and the Great White Horse Hotel has acquired stone cladding, several signs and a set of traffic lights.

Electricity has played a great part in transport in Ipswich throughout the first half of the 20th century, first with trams, and then with the trolley buses.

The three-storey black and white building on the left of the picture is The Wilbraham Arms, named for an important local family who lived in nearby Dorfold Hall; the Wilbrahams were

A musical version of James Hilton's novel 'Goodbye Mr Chips' was filmed here some years ago.

On entering the county of Carmarthenshire, the unprepossessing village shown here is the first place on the itinerary.

St Leonard's was laid out by James Burton (father of the more famous Decimus Burton) after 1828.

Tudor Close House c1955 Tudor Close House was a skilful 1920s conversion of much older farm buildings into seven houses.

The church probably lies on the site of a Saxon church which was replaced by a stone church. The last major rebuilding took place in 1308.

The scene is rather different today, when many of the buildings are no longer identifiable and others are hidden by new development.

The short flights enabled drivers to be on the roads of France or Belgium much more quickly than if they used the ferries.

The parish church of St John the Baptist was consecrated on 12 April 1913; the foundation stone had been laid eighteen months earlier.

The long fields in the distance were filled with houses soon after this picture was taken, with the development of the Basildon Drive estate.

Warboys is a fen-edge village: the common pastures and fen were drained by acts of parliament in the late 18th century. The Horse and Harness pub advertises Huntingdon Ales.

Here we see one of the famous Lincolnshire beaches with its necessary donkeys. No beach is complete without these loveable and cuddlesome beasts, all with their friendly names.

A deck chair and a roll of wire fencing stand outside the ironmongers in Spring Street.

The old lifeboat station at Runswick Bay on the North Sea coast is rather incongruously painted with black and white half-timbering in this photograph.

Across the river on the hillside is The Cottage, a mock-Tudor house with plaster pargetting standing amid rhododendrons.

Visitors and residents alike gather around the bandstand to hear one of the many bands - military or civilian - which play on summer afternoons. Bournemouth has long been associated with music.

The entrance to St Chad's is the arched opening on the right.

The commercial centre of the town for over a hundred years, this area had long-established tradesmen's shops.