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It was served by Evans Corner and this comprehensive parade of shops on the Rush Green Road at Dagenham Road crossroads.

A continuation of Church Street, Chapel Street leads on to the High Street.

The structure behind the drinking fountain is the Simeon Monument, 'erected and lighted for ever at the expense of Edward Simeon as a mark of affection to his native town' in 1804.

In this picturesque of a long-vanished world, chickens are foraging for food and children playing by the pond.

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

Lympstone suffered economic depression at the end of the Napoleonic Wars when its shipbuilding yards closed. A number of residents moved to Devonport to continue their trade.

This photograph, looking towards The Nook, highlights the frustration of what could have been.

Glasgow boasts one of the world's finest municipal collections of art, now housed at Kelvingrove.

Church Lane has always been one of the most attractive parts of Stafford. Legionnaire's Disease The most notorious misfortune to affect 20th-century Stafford occurred in April 1985.

Here we have a general view of Halton and its castle from the west. The castle was built by the new Norman lord of the manor of Halton, Nigel Fitzwilliam, in around 1071.

The parish church of Clewer village, now part of Windsor, St Andrew’s retains its village character in its old traditional setting.

The Devil's Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Redevelopment of the Parade started c1870. Lime trees were planted in the 1880s to start the Avenue.

Maidstone was the head of navigation of the Medway for centuries. This was because the river's upper reaches were crowded with fisheries and mills that impeded navigation.

Chancellor had amassed in excess of £40,000 in income paid to the Corporation during that time.

Charminster stands across the valley of the River Frome from Dorchester. It has grown considerably since this picture was taken.

Bovington is the home of the popular tank museum, where a great many tanks and armoured military vehicles can be seen.

We are on the peaceful, reed-fringed shores of Rydal Water, near Grasmere. Rydal was the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850, and this was one of his favourite lakes.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard

The great chasm of Blackgang Chine was an early tourist attraction on the Isle of Wight, with its dramatic waterfall and eroded colourful cliffs.

Here we see the east front of Chatsworth, where a team of gardeners with their carts full of bedding plants are working on the Italian gardens.

The beautiful village of Bredon stands at the foot of Bredon Hill, and is deservedly on everyone's list of favourite English villages.