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Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

In days gone by there was a gate across the road at this point which barred the way to passers-by, who could only proceed on payment of a toll.

The inn occupied both of these buildings. The one to the left is 16th-century, with a brick façade of 1759. The taller building was erected in 1826.

The house opposite is The Wakes, now a museum illustrating the story of naturalist and explorer Francis Oates and of his nephew Captain Lawrence Oates, who joined the fateful Antarctic expedition in 1911

At the foot of the hill is a junction. Left is for Nether Wallop and right is for Over Wallop. Out of sight by the café sign is a large roadside pub, The George Inn.

The attractive mixture of village vernacular and Victorian buildings suggests a sleepy backwater, yet Caerleon has been an important site since Roman times, when they turned it into a major fortress, and

A Little Chef and a more modern fuel station (the Mile End service station) has now taken the place of this homely café we see here offering teas and the delights of the ubiquitous Hovis loaf.

The Buttertubs Pass leads dramatically down to this village, which is 9 miles west of Muker. It was hit by a natural disaster in 1898, the result of a cloud burst.

Originally a wooden Saxon fortress built on two islands, the building was transformed into a solid stone castle at the end of the 12th century by the Norman baron Robert de Crevecoeur.

Standing above the east bank of the river Stour, Wye was a royal manor before the Norman Conquest, and was given by William I to Battle Abbey in Susses.

It is mid-afternoon in the quiet main street of Sandgate, with a single-decker tramcar passing by on its way to Folkestone.

The body of the church is early 14th-century, but any patina of age was effectively neutralised by the restorations of 1849 and 1857.

Looking West We are looking across the lake to the houses in Durham Street, with the Presbyterian church roof in the centre of the picture, and the Holy Rood Roman Catholic church on

St Margaret's began as a leper hospital, possibly founded by Robert Fitz-Parnell, himself a leper, whose brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, held Kingston Manor from 1190 to 1204.

The quiet little seaside town of Selsey was once part of a small island.

This view looks west with the Red House (left) in front of and next to Lorne House and West Deyne, the school boarding houses.

In the distance in the centre of this photograph is The King's Arms public house; at this time it was one of the houses of the Maidstone brewers Style & Winch Ltd.

Redevelopment of Daventry began in the early sixties under a scheme to house Birmingham overspill population.

Built of beautiful polished red Ruabon brick, and with lots of fine decorative detail on it, the local story is that it was erected simply to make this the tallest house in Neston!

The Cowper Arms lies at the corner of Colyer Close and Station Road.

The Jolly Miller on Hook Road has a skittles evening each week. It has ten bedrooms, all with televisions - they would not have had these in 1955. A single bedroom costs £39 including breakfast.

This is a quaint corner of Loftus, which here looks totally unsuited for the traffic of the present day.

The elegant brick railway station is at the far end, and the Grand Hotel is on the left. On the right is the Taliesin Hotel.

The arrival of the railway in 1866 gave this market town a boost, and it rapidly developed to serve a large hinterland.