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Much of the downland around Findon, at the southern end of the same 'wind-gap' in the South Downs, was for centuries an open sheep-walk.

What an unusual combination of goods the trader is selling in the third shop from the right: fishing tackle and fireworks! Today this large town by the River Medway looks very different.

Dr Boddington was a local man; in 1840 he wrote a pioneering paper on the treatment of TB, then known as pulmonary consumption.

The names of the hotels—the Imperial, the Majestic and the Grand - indicate that the resort could attract a cosmopolitan and wealthy clientele.

Frith's photographer moves on to Clapham Common; seeking human interest, he pauses at the Long Pond at the eastern end of the Common, looking from the opposite side to C327009 (pages 108 - 109).

Taken from above the mouth of the River Leven, this view overlooks Greenodd Sands towards Ulverston. In the distance, a 100ft tower, a replica of the famous Eddystone Lighthouse, surmounts Hoad Hill.

A railway once crossed the road at the bottom of Berry Lane.

In the southern suburb of Redhill, this line of bijou Victorian houses and shops developed alongside the tree-lined common, overlooked by the formidable presence of St John's Church (background).

The medieval borough and market town of Bala is still loved for its wide streets in this most rural part of Meirionnydd.

This road takes its name from the bridge over the River Colne, visible in the foreground of the picture.

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.

The origins of Marazion's name are the subject of some argument.

Stone from Waddington Fell was used to rebuild the church of St Helen in 1901. Only the tower of the old church remains - it dates back to c1500. That too was built from Waddington Fell stone.

The church of St Mary is glorious with snowdrops in winter. An unusual headstone is that of Jenny Preston, showing a witch with her cauldron. Gisburn appears in Domesday Book.

The magnificent art deco Tinside Lido and Swimming Pool, completed in 1933, was a popular venue for genera- tions of Plymouth children, mainly during the summer holidays, as the salt-water pool had no

There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

Jarrow's seven-acre pedestrian shopping precinct opened for business in February 1961; it was all part of a grand scheme to rid the town of its cloth cap image and to drag it into the modern age.

Apparently transplanted from Romanesque Italy, this remarkable church in yellow and red brick was funded by the great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley.

On the east bank of the Cuckmere River opposite Alfriston, Lullington is very much a shrunken medieval village, with its isolated church a good quarter of a mile north of Lullington Court, the farm complex

The hedge at the right belongs to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, a somewhat unattractive Neo-Norman church of 1843.

The Park was laid out by Edward Davis, a pupil of Sir John Soane, the architect of the old Bank of England, and opened in 1830. This view shows the later bandstand in full swing.

Today the scene is more reminiscent of this peaceful picture from the past. Most of the buildings in the town centre are of stone, although there are a few half-timbered examples.

Now known as the Bear of Rodborough, this has been a stopping place for centuries, and played an important part as a collecting point for carrier services in this area of steep hills.