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Ladies Walk was laid out in 1785 by the Enclosure Award Commissioners in conjunction with the Corporation of Andover.

Here we see a change of pace compared to some of the previous pictures: the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and the road is heaving with traffic. 1955 was a year of newspaper and dock strikes;

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

Now totally pedestrianised with trees planted to give some shade, the Square is dominated by the 16th- century market hall (left) and the statue of Robert Clive, Clive of India.

The one mile embankment was constructed in 1859 by the Earl of Leicester to enable the larger trading vessels to reach the town quayside.

Dedicated to St Michael and All Angels, the church contains monuments to the Galton family of Edstone Hall.

This photograph was taken during the heyday of the Cairo and Central promenade; we are looking towards the bandstand and the Kursaal, with a happily-posed seaside goat-cart and donkey.

There are various family portraits inside the castle, some of them dating back to the Wars of the Roses.

Sunlight floods the right-hand side of Church Street in this view of everyday life in a small Sussex town.

Local tradesmen pose for the cameraman in front of the ornate octagonal open Market Cross in the Market Place, centrepiece of this lovely little town which many people believe to be the most beautiful

Sir Winston Churchill was buried in the churchyard of St Martin's Church on 30 January 1965. This photograph must have been taken soon after his interment here.

The New Inn at Clapham is a popular hostelry in the heart of the Dales Three Peaks Country, and a convenient starting place for the ascent of Ingleborough, which is 2,434 feet high.

The colonnaded Market Hall, rebuilt in 1813, dominates the centre of Ilminster. The tall building to the left is the post office.

The now busy A6, along with the rapid growth of the nearby East Midlands Airport, compounds the traffic problems that Kegworth has seen since the M1 junction was put in a mile away.

A ladies' bowls match is in progress in the peaceful setting of Zetland Park, at the start of the Coast Road to Marske.

The former private gardens of the residents of Palmyra Square were purchased in 1897 as a park to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and were opened to the public on the 17th of October 1898.

The Gardens were part of a scheme to enhance Southport's image as a garden city.

This quiet little corner is on the north side of Torquay and reached by way of a romantic wooded ravine.

The final picture shows a brand new council estate; by the look of the gardens, no one has yet moved in. The only vehicle in the scene is a utility van, either gas or electricity.

Cheltenham entrepreneur Joseph Pitt benefited from an Act of Parliament that enclosed common land on the northern edge of the town.

Carved from a 17-ton block of white marble from Carrara in Tuscany, Queen Victoria looks unamused as she grasps her orb and sceptre in front of the Shire Hall.