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High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Note the blinds down on the shops on the right.

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

The Old Greyhound Inn is still in business, and the cottages further down still look up the street towards the junction.

Frith's photographer takes us down into the crypt of Holy Trinity church, discovered by an 18th-century gravedigger when the aisle floor collapsed beneath him.

The latter's pier, however, was pulled down in 1960. The pier at St Anne's opened in 1885, with extensions following in 1904.

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

Down the slipway beyond the historic Ferry Inn, car ferries ply to and fro across the waters of the Fowey.

Further down the road we come to the Gower Heritage Centre.

These awe-inspiring and formidable walls and gates were knocked down in 1934. At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

The River Cherwell is quieter than the Thames; a popular run on a summer evening is up for a drink to the Victoria and Albert pub at Old Marston, whose garden runs down to the river.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

This general view shows typical houses of the time; the terrace in the foreground is followed by 1950s semis leading down to the waters of the inlet of Carmarthen Bay, with the Gower peninsular just visible

The gardens are laid out on a site that slopes gently down towards Rope Walk and The Brook, offering a pleasant place in the centre of town in which to stroll or sit, and perhaps recover

Here we see the junction of the Hathersage road and the road leading down to the bridge over the Derwent.

Its streets, North, South, East and West, follow the pattern laid down by the Romans.

It emerges from under the Island in the Square and runs down to Radstock. A tunnel now diverts its once frequent floods.