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Here, children are playing on the steps leading down to the bandstand, which has now gone. Housing has now appeared beyond the fringes of the park.

The motor car is well provided for in this picture, which looks down the High Street to the Abbey gateway. On the right are the Ford Service Depot and Pratt's Petrol.

The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.

Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

The Cat and Cracker got its name in 1954, when the brewers Style & Winch Ltd of Maidstone named it after the catalytic cracker, which breaks down crude oil, and was used by the nearby Anglo- Iranian

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters. At its back it is fringed by hills.

Proposals were drawn up for a new pavilion, indoor nets, and a banqueting suite at Queen's Park, but were turned down by Chesterfield Borough Council.

Simply push the three rails down, and step over! This one is the only example of a clapper stile in Cambridgeshire.

We are looking down Penrith's main shopping street.The scene has not changed much since Victorian days, except for the fact that the horses have by now disappeared and have been replaced by motor vehicles

The pinnacled Victorian Parish Church of St John, Cragg Vale, with its crowded graveyard, looks down the isolated, wooded valley where the coiners once operated, far from the eyes of the law and authority

Emery Down stands on the frontier of some of the wildest scenery in the New Forest. Badgers live deep in the woods, deer can be seen by the patient watcher, and buzzards circle overhead.

The impressive facade of the Hotel Metropole, with the Ship Hotel next door, faced the end of the Jetty to greet the thousands of holidaymakers who travelled down on the paddle steamers.

These immaculately thatched cottages still exist, although they are rather run-down nowadays. Today the three villages of South, Middle and North Littleton all virtually run into each other.

This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.

She was provided with milk by two deer; when a huntsman came after them with dogs, he was struck down by God and died instantly.

From a slightly different viewpoint, this picture looks across Town Hall Gardens and the Chatham rooftops towards the Downs beyond.

Here we are looking down Queen Street from the junction with Kettering Road, towards the centre of the village where the spire of the church can be seen in the distance.

By 1839, the parish church of Holy Trinity was becoming a little run down.

Leylandii trees line the nearside of the plot, but the view down the road remains very pastoral.

It burned down in 1928.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

A scene that was once familiar in many villages up and down the country. Notice the petrol pump on the right.

In 1930 a flash flood swept down Laxey Valley with sufficient force to destroy the central section of the T-rocker, though it was later restored.