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Street furniture is on the increase, and Luton's planners show innovation for the period with the first example of a mini-roundabout, just visible behind the vehicle in the middle of the photograph.

The processional cross once belonged to the Roman Catholic Chapel at Wingerworth Hall, seat of the Hunloke family.

The Old House of 1678 is a prominently-sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

Twelve years before the turn of the century the Eastgate looks austere without its decorative clock.

Here the Market Place has a fair number of local people and tradesmen curiously watching the cameraman's antics in the middle of the street.

The Red Lion Hotel in the charming village of Armathwaite occupies a beautiful position at the foot of a tree-clad bank above the River Eden.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile- hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

The dome-topped Grand Pavilion, originally called the Kursaal, was built on the site of the stables of the Fishpond Hotel by the local council in the 1880s in an attempt to attract the public.

The Romans established a fort here, Bremetennacum, in AD80 by a ford across the Ribble, and the pillars supporting the porch of the White Bull Hotel are said to have come from one of its

This cottage, probably 16th- or 17th-century, is typical of those found on the eastern side of Dartmoor.

Between 1801 and 1901 the industrialisation process brought tens of thousands of people into Staffordshire.

Only the central rump of this row of cottages survives today in the village, and is barely recognizable from the photograph.

It was originally called the Tercentenary Hall, but as this is a bit of mouthful, it quickly became renamed New Hall by the boys.

At St Helen's Church the corbelled, pinnacled and crocketed tower stands out in more ways than one: it seems curiously at odds, in size and style, with the rest of the church.

The well tended beds, paths and raised walkways show that the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners had an early appreciation of the ruined castle's leisure and tourist potential.

The early 14th-century tower of St Teilo's, Llantilio Pertholey stands squarely among the surrounding trees.

As can be seen from this photograph, this was a popular spot to sit and relax on a sunny summer's day.

In 1947 land behind the war memorial was landscaped as sunken gardens and their 1.3 acres became the new Gardens of Remembrance.

The library has one of the largest collections of railway books of any public library in Britain - there are around 6,000 books on the subject.

To the right of the K Shoe Shop is a corner of Heelas' store, a noted local department store, now part of John Lewis.

Opened in 1883 on the site of the old Crockherbtown Theatre, with money raised by a consortium headed by James Howell, the Park Hotel 'designed for high-class family business', was to epitomise the

Even before the end of the First World War calls had been made to erect a monument to honour Wales' dead.

Between the right-hand blind and the entrance doorway was the London City and Midland Bank, forerunner of the Midland Bank, and now the police office.

Friar Street was an odd assortment of buildings, including a number of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses and shops.