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Tree-lined Criffel Street, in the handsome Solway seaside town of Silloth, is a reminder of the proximity of the Scottish Border.

Once at the heart of King John's hunting ground of Cranborne Chase, the village of Cranborne is rich in history.

This is a slightly earlier view over the rooftops of the hotel complex, with some of the buildings of Clappersgate visible below Loughrigg.

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

This is one of the significant relics of the industrial past of the Ebbw Vale area, and at one time a busy railway line ran over the top of this arch.

St Andrew's church, in Church Lane, has served this ancient parish for hundreds of years.

One of the striking features of this photograph is that many of the shops have awnings to keep their wares cool and shaded in summer – a rare sight today.

Chamber and the Queen's Hall with its stunning panels of stained glass on its western side.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

The church of St Andrew was restored in 1885 and has a shingled broach spire.

St Peter's is a building of some antiquity, and this view of the rear of the parish church does not do justice to its clarity of line or the aesthetic appeal of its architecture.

The Great Western Railway cuts across the scene, with the ribbon development of Par Green on the far side to the right.

Under the spreading chestnut trees of St Mary`s churchyard, and on the opposite side of the village street, the photographer`s activities generate much interest from a mixed audience of both children

Along with the building to the left, it is now part of an amusement arcade, yet much of the original façade remains intact.

Some of these features were already in place at the turn of the century and a number of other prestigious regeneration schemes are at an advanced stage in their development while others are on

There is much texture in this detailed composition of one corner of the harbour, made by the slate stones of the breakwater wall, the heavy coiled ropes and the basketwork of the crab pots.

This is the view the big houses saw, with the new rows of houses which had helped to add nearly 50% to the town's population in ten years.

In 1603 two residents, John and Kit Wright, were part of the Gunpowder Plot with Guy Fawkes.

Once the railway arrived in 1885, the manorial village of Scalby grew into a genteel Victorian suburb of Scarborough.

The most notorious abbot of Furness Abbey was undoubtedly Alexander Banks. One William Case, on behalf of the people of Sellergarth, sued him in court in 1516.

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

In 1651, Sir Richard Weston of nearby Sutton Place embarked on his great enterprise to create the Wey Navigation and make the river commercially navigable from Guildford to the Thames, by straightening

Over a large part of the area, modern toilets were unknown; cesspits and earth closets were common. Such rural conditions could be quite enjoyable in the dry, summer months.

In 2003, a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane