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Brewing ceased on the 40-acre site in 1993 and was replaced by the Sainsburys Hypermarket complex.

Tillingham has been owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's since at least 604.

The locomotive comes tender first into Newby Bridge station, where it is awaited by the station-master.

Today this large town by the River Medway looks very different. It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A prison that has housed some of Britain's most notorious criminals is nearby.

I hope the woman in the deckchair, right, was not so fast asleep that she get caught out by the tide!

The conversion was paid for by the proprietor of the Wolverhampton newspaper, the Express and Star.

Its colonnaded frontage made it a distinctive and attractive building, but it was demolished in 1933, to be replaced by the hotel we see here. This was itself demolished in 1979 and replaced by shops.

Known as Wood Green High School today, the former boys' school was founded in 1924 at Wood Green Lodge, on a site which is now overshadowed by the M6 motorway.

By the time this photograph was taken, railways had superseded canals, leaving this once thriving lifeline a peaceful backwater.

In 1777 the medieval church was demolished and replaced by the Gothic Revival building designed by Francis Hiorn of Worcester we see today. Its spire is the fourth highest in England.

The street is here a little busier, with cars, a bus and several delivery vans parked by the kerb. Loading outside the Co-op is a mobile fish shop.

Now owned by the National Trust for Scotland, Brodick Castle, once the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, dates from the 14th century.

By the age of 21 he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a pioneer in the science of anaesthetics, but although he tried to publicise his work, no-one then was interested.

It dates from 1804, but was derelict by the 1950s. The mill has been restored, and in 1991 the sails were re-erected.

These were threatened by the instability of the cliffs, and in the 1980s a large sea wall was built, stretching from around the point out of the picture on the right.

At the end of Main Street is the entrance to Sewerby Hall, now a fine museum officially opened in June 1936 by the Hull-born aviator Amy Johnson (1903-41).

It is much more likely to be a 17th- or 18th-century packhorse bridge, used by the 'jaggers' who carried goods by packhorse trains long before the days of metalled roads.

In the southern suburb of Redhill, this line of bijou Victorian houses and shops developed alongside the tree-lined common, overlooked by the formidable presence of St John's Church (background).

Bypassed by the Bridgewater canal, the cobbled village centre has retained much of its quaint atmosphere. Perhaps Frith's photographer sought refreshment at the imposing sandstone Ram's Head Hotel.

The Hall is in a beautiful position, overlooking the Cartmel Sands and backed by the Furness Fells.

This is a strangely remote part of the county, whose beauty is guarded and reserved, although surrounded by the richness of the Weald.

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

On the opposite corner of Monk Street the agricultural merchants has gone, to be replaced by the new South Wales Electricity Board building.

The links had opened in the same year as the photograph, on 25 April 1910: the first ball was driven off by the local MP, Lord Willoughby de Evesby.