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The 'Snow Goose' ferry leaves the Quay, still busy with fishing boats. The large building behind is the Blakeney Hotel, which opened in 1923.

Tavistock's Goose fair is held in Bedford Square on the second Wednesday in October.

The hotel on the left here is The Fox and Goose, one of several large pubs on the main road at Penn, a reminder that this has for centuries been a major line of communication.

The village was once nicknamed 'the goose village', because it was said that geese from Pendleton tasted better than any others in Lancashire.

We are still in Baskerville, looking in the opposite direction to photograph M13030, with Goose Bridge to the extreme left of the photograph.

sticks and just watch the stream.The fortunes of the village have fluctated with time, and week-enders and in-comers now make up a large part of the old village.The village was once nicknamed 'the goose

Here the River Avon flows under Goose Bridge. This steep old bridge was unfortunately modernised in the late 1960s, but the medieval cutwaters underneath still remain.

They depict a pig wearing a friar's cowl; a fox running off with a goose; and a monkey in a religious habit carrying a bottle in one hand and a book in the other.

In 1808 a diarist wrote that he attended an expensive dinner where twenty people consumed beef, chicken, ham, goose, duck and pie for 15s per head.

E Clarke (right) was amongst the good family grocers in St Anne's, and the shop also sold to the hotels. G Benner & Company in the Square was another—it had a good motor delivery service.

They never got further west than Chesterfield where they had a station at West Bars near the Market Place, and extensive goods facilities.

The running of the postal service in Victorian times was considered vital to the public good.

Clifton Drive, a splendid thoroughfare, good hotels and good schools coupled with a salubrious climate all helped.

There is a large goods siding and shed to the left (now the bus station), while on the right are smaller sidings with animal pens, a loading gauge and a shunting signal.

Here we have a good view of the beach, sea wall and the grassed-over area where trippers could sit and relax. Beyond are the Esplanade shops and cafes.

The stones have a Latin inscription, which reads 'Doniert ordered this for the good of his soul'.

Although the railways were well established by the start of the First World War, barges such as these still did plenty of trade carrying grain and other goods along the Fenland waterways.

The roads were kept in a good state of repair, enabling high speeds to be maintained by the best of coaches.

Mr Manship's Central Café, seen in the centre of the photograph, no doubt offered a good range of refreshments, whilst gifts could be bought at the gift shop on the right of this view.

For hundreds of years smuggling was a major industry in Swanage: the smuggled goods were hidden in the local caves and quarries.

The summer entertainment, 'Bubbles', is advertised on the Pier Pavilion.Those walking on the pier have a good view of the activities below.

of the pier, taken seven years after the previous two photographs, shows that Paignton then had interesting shops; advertisements offered Turkish baths, drinking chocolate, a drug store, cleaners, and good

It closed to passenger traffic on 2 January 1967 and to goods traffic a few months later, though some private sidings continued in use until June 1969.

Sandringham has been a royal palace since 1861, when Prince Albert purchased the estate to give his son, the Prince of Wales, a country estate with good shooting, well away from the temptations of London