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The Crown Inn and Restaurant (the white building to the left of the road) is still there, as are the other houses. This photograph looks towards Market Rasen.

In front of one of these houses stood the community's well. This was cemented over in the 1950s. It was 175 feet deep, and was notorious for breaking its rope and losing the bucket.

Behind the trees, with only the chimney pots visible, are the purpose-built school houses, Garlands, The Knoll and Hillside. Football Lane runs sharply downhill to the right.

It originally started as just five women students assembling in a house in Cambridge to be tutored by Mrs Jemima Clough; as the establishment grew, it moved into a building in the suburb of Newnham, taking

In the distance, on the right, is Bank Parade house, once the home of Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925).

Iona was chosen by St Columba in AD 563 as the site for a religious house from where he could carry out his missionary work.

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

The houses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries are almost picturesque behind hedges and walls, with a restrained petrol sign being all that is needed to alert drivers to the garage's presence - petrol

Taken long before the days of amusement arcades and the bandstand, this photograph shows that Pier Road and the Crag consisted solely of dwelling houses, probably occupied mainly by the fishing community

At the far side of the meadows stand the Bath Houses. These were founded by local surgeons in 1722, but were rebuilt a hundred years later.

In the distance we can see scaffolding on a house - it was destroyed by fire in September 1929.

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

Set in remote and well-wooded rolling countryside west of and utterly remote from Crawley, Rusper has a gently curving main street with many good houses and cottages.

All around are the ruins of engine houses and copper mines. The Celtic St Cleer's well is situated in a somewhat suburban part of the village, surrounded by bungalows.

A corner of the 13th-century castle can be seen at the top right of the picture, though our main subject is the country house built by Thomas Mansel Talbot in the 1770s and its 19th-century additions.

The keep is 14th-century; it was rebuilt in 1840 to house students following the creation of Durham University in 1832. The castle was turned into a university college a few years later.

The attached manor house was erected in 1614.

A tragedy for Chesham was the demolition in 1965 of the Market House (or Town Hall) in the alleged interests of those great behemoths, the motor car and the lorry.

Designed in the 1760s by the splendidly-named architect Stiff Leadbetter for William Drake, it replaced a 1630s house and was completed and decorated by Robert Adam.

Hewitts, the Free Church of 1913 and the hall beyond were demolished in 1963 and replaced by the tawdry flat-roofed three-storey Sycamore House flats, offices and shops.

Beyond the building on the right, Yew Tree House with its yew tree, is the pub and church, the latter with its fine 130ft-high 15th-century spire and the Sir John Jefferay monument to the builder

The town preserves its High Street well at the north end and along Church Street, a turning off it; both streets contain timber-framed and later Georgian houses of quality.

It had been bought by G W Shepherd of Ladygrove House in 1879, and by 1890 was also producing coconut and rush matting.

The site of the houses on the right is now part of the hotel car park.