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This little village on the edge of Ashdown Forest was a centre of the Wealden iron industry. It once had three foundries, the last of which became a gunpowder mill in 1849.

Standing high on a hill with fine Sussex views, West Hoathly is probably best known for its historic church of St Margaret of Antioch.

The wide Main Street of Egremont, watched over by the clock tower of the Victorian Town Hall, is typical of many Cumbrian towns.

This is the east end of St Paul's Cathedral before the destruction of the Victorian high altar by a Second World War bomb in 1940.

A delightful picture of Bures, a pleasing collection of villages which straddle the river Stour and the county boundary with Suffolk.This picture shows the type of architecture so common hereabouts

The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

Keay House—on the right—was home to Basildon Urban District Council from 1960 to 1965. It took its name from Sir Lancelot Keay, the first chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

This photograph and H464004 show the same scene on the St Ives Road.

The architecture of London Street has changed very little since this photograph was taken.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes still wind down to the North Sea just as they did in the 1950s.

The hillside town of Yeadon lies to the north of Bradford, and is today perhaps most famous as the site of the Leeds-Bradford Airport.

At that time John Spencer, a Warwickshire sheep farmer, acquired the estate and created a park of some 300 acres here.

The cars parked on the left of the picture may well be taxis. Rising above the cars is the impressive edifice of H Samuel, the famous High Street jeweller.

Built in 1776, the building has been enlarged and extended, and is now a part of the Metropole Hotel.

A small flock of Welsh mountain sheep are being driven along the road through Aberglaslyn pass. The breed is hardy, and well adapted to thrive on poor grazing. The narrow gorge is heavily wooded.

The Shipping Chemist on the corner of Swanpool Street (left) reflects the maritime function of Falmouth.

Agriculture in the 1950s had not changed much since the 19th cen- tury, and horses were still com- monly used on the land.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

Ellesmere was once part of the dowry of King John's illegitimate daughter, Joan.

It was the principal seat of the Mortimer family, one of whom became Edward IV.

Frederick Barker was born at Baslow on 17 March 1808, and followed other members of his family by becoming a churchman.

Just beyond, joining Third and New Courts of St John's College, is the Bridge of Sighs, its Gothic design unashamedly borrowed from the covered bridge of the same name in Venice.

James Murgatroyd was the architect, and it was he who was invited back in April 1892 to oversee the taking down of the portico entrance and the bringing out of the front of the building to the pavement

The unusual war memorial and cross are on the left, and the massively-buttressed tower of the parish church dominates the skyline.