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At the south end of Cheap Street, seen on the right, were the premises of H R Hughes; the building has a narrow three-sided front and a stone-tiled roof, also with three planes.

To the left is the side elevation of the Market Hall, and to the right The Royal Clarence Hotel; this is of about 1835, with tall first-floor sash windows and a columned porch.

At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

Looking northwards, this photograph shows two- way traffic running the whole length of the Broadway (this is not the case today).

Built out of the local creamy-white limestone, the castle keep is 90 ft high and has six semi-hexagonal buttresses which rise above it to form mini-turrets.

Designed by Edgar Wood, the inn opened on 18 February 1897; the licence had been transferred from the previous inn at Trub Farmhouse. The mock- Tudor front was added later.

It was refurbished in 1987-88, so that today the foreground of this scene is occupied by a coffee bar, a traditional-style fountain and several plane trees.

St Mary's is well known for the large number of chantries endowed by Newark's wealthier inhabitants.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

In this view, looking north-east from the bridge on the south bank of the Ouse, the Swan Hotel is seen without ivy.

Three miles south of Sandy we reach Biggleswade, now by- passed by the A1.

This view looks east past the much-reduced George pub, with Burton's facade beyond, to the junction of Cambridge Street at the left and High Street to the right of the Round House.

The lord of the manor, Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was granted a market charter in 1245.

The pier was built of iron in 1881, and measured 300 feet in length by 30 feet wide.

The church of St Mary was built in 1863; it replaced a nearby Norman building constructed on the site of a sumptuous sixty-room Roman villa, which was excavated in the late 18th century.

In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.

Once a hunting estate for John of Gaunt, the land was purchased in 1803 by Thomas Nicholson, who created the two lakes and the parkland. Mansion House dates from 1826.

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

Situated on precarious cliffs, the village has suffered greatly from erosion over the years.

Looking up the High Street from the direction of Silver Street and Oxford Street shows a quiet street scene with little traffic.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

Here seen in the 1920s, the Ferry Hotel has acquired a growth of creeper over much of the fine stonework of its frontage. In the foreground to the right the former short jetty is just visible.

This building replaced a much smaller church on the same site. The construction of the new St Augustine's began in 1865; dedication by the Bishop of Llandaff followed the next year.