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The small hamlet of slate-roofed farm houses and cottages lies at the end of a lane near Black Head, sheltered in the valley which climbs up from Hallane Beach.

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

The wide road shows the importance of this route to the town.The wide pavements are said to have been constructed to facilitate rope and net mak- ing outside the inhabitants' houses.

This is a rare photograph of the House of Lords chamber showing the Mace in place behind the Lord Chancellor's seat on the Woolsack. The government benches are to the right.

Local tradition alleges that she married Prince George in secret at nearby Brambridge House.

The Newark Museum is in one of the distant houses on the right and is well worth vistiing.

Actually the Park Keeper's house dominates the picture: it is a splendidly-spired residence when compared with the rather ordinary dwelling in the background.

The journey into Cornwall transported travellers into a land of unique beauty, remote brown stone hamlets and the poignant remains of deserted mines and engine houses.

It is built in the form of a clover leaf, and below the walls is a Tudor block house.

The cottage in the centre was Ayers Old-Fashioned Eating House, which has plenty of seating outside for visitors. Note the heavy round rubble chimney above.

In due course, all the military installations were cleared from Hiltingbury Common; the area was developed into a large housing estate on one side and a recreation ground on the other.

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn, Wulfric Spot.

A close-up showing the foundations of the original Chapter House dating back to the early 18th century.

Dumbell's Row still stands, as do other links with Laxey's mining past; the Station Hotel was once the Mine Captain's house.

Since then, it has undergone massive refurbishment and changes of name before becoming The Mill House.

Houses with overhanging upper storeys are rare in the Lake District. The street name derives from the large stone paving flags, which cover a small watercourse running just below street level.

up in the 1930s when the Benedictine order of monks outgrew the old grange on the hillside, but these were modified over the years; the present abbey is in stark architectural contrast to the old house

As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

A Gothic-style house, it incorporated a Catholic chapel on the first floor, and was in use for services from 1886 until the year before this photograph was taken.

Two public houses here, the Red Cow and the Butchers Arms, have a long history.

Hotels and boarding houses dominated the sea front by King Edward VIII's reign.

The poster advertises houses for sale: this was the time when the town was experiencing its greatest growth.

During the war it was requisitioned to house travelling people, whose nomadic lifestyle was prevented by wartime restrictions.