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Although Ilfracombe is essentially a Victorian town, the elegant terraced houses of Montpellier Place (upper, left of centre) were built in the early 1830s.

The overgrown remains of St Boltolph's Priory, a Norman church standing outside the old Roman walls of Colchester.

Paignton pier, one of the oldest in Britain, strides 800 feet out to sea; we see it here in all its Victorian finery.

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

Local histories describe Robert Clive as a young tearaway, and stories of him abound.

The entrance to the Pier can just be seen to the left of the flagpole.

Charles Stuart, fleeing after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, reached Bromsgrove disguised as the servant of the remarkable Jane Lane.

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

The roofscape of Totnes remains largely unchanged. In the distance is St John's Church, Bridgetown; the wooded hill to the right is now the large housing estate of Westonfields.

Since 1902 Raphael Park has provided Romford people with a place of relaxation and recreation.

Instead of sea- front amusements, it has the long stretch of cliff-top pastureland known as the Greensward, and the imposing 1896 pile of the Grand Hotel.

The BBC used to come to the countryside around Oxted to record and broadcast the sound of nightingales.

The southern arm of the River Wey passes here, yet the two ponds at Shottermill are actually in West Sussex.

The Library and adjacent buildings on the left are of more recent date than those on the right because there was a regular problem with flooding on this side of the road, caused by the local Bourne stream

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Sailing dinghies were becoming popular, and sailing clubs were established on both sides of the river.

Built during the dark days of the depression, this was a statement about civic pride.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather's Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

The Castle Hotel is to the right of this picture. Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants).

NOW, as we come into the third millennium, it is possible to see that all three communities have become essentially suburban areas, in that few people depend for their living on locally owned farms

Four hundred of these workers combed wool in their homes at Forton, Scorton and Nether Wyresdale.

Here we see the offices and entrance gates of Horrockses, Crewdson & Co on Stanley Street.

The distinctive profile of the Nab dominates the harbour of Staithes.

This is the mother-church of Sudbury, with St Peter's as its chapel-of-ease.