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This is the oldest part of the village, with some properties dating back to medieval times.

The high banks along many stretches of this great river confirm its habit of flooding.

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

In the background is Holy Trinity Church, a most unusual building, which in the 1900s included a tobacconist, a bank, and two butchers' shops as component parts.

Typical of so many Glamorgan churches, St Andrew's traces its roots back to the Norman occupation – its nave and chancel are believed to date from the 13th century.

To the right are the back garden walls of the villas in De Parys Avenue.

The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.

Further back in Tudor Square, Frith's photographer was looking into Central Avenue with Albert Road to the right and Rectory Road to the left.

We have now nearly reached the southern end of the street, and have turned round to head back to the church.

At the top of Greenway Road, looking back towards the heart of old Runcorn is the war memorial.

The tower contains a bell cast in the local bell foundries in 1665; the location of these foundries is commemorated in the name Bell Banks Road, a road to the south that runs from Market Street to

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

Back in the 1920s, people had a good choice of public transport. The tramway from Bradford came here in 1914, but the first road accident happened years earlier in 1900.

The Village 1940 Beyond Williton, our route follows the western edge of the Quantock Hills back towards Taunton.

But for the young girl with the satchel on her back, the start of another school day beckons.

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.

The Bishop of Durham claimed Barnard and occupied it from 1296 to 1301; then Edward I took it back, and eventually gave it to Robert Clifford.

This is the frantically busy A330 and the wall on the right, to Holyport Lodge, has been moved back for road widening.

Drainage was provided, but it proved inadequate after a very high tide, with the result that the water found its own way back to the sea by scouring out a deep channel under some of the pier supports

At its back it is fringed by hills. In common with Penzance and Newlyn, Mousehole narrowly escaped sacking by the Spaniards in the 1500s.

Here, country people are awaiting the carriers' carts that will transport them back to their farms and villages. The thatch covering the rubble cottages on the right has seen better days.

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

The Royalists had a verse about local lad and Parliamentary general, Thomas Harrison: 'Son of a witch, Mayest thou die in a ditch, With the butchers who back up thy quarrels, And art above ground, While

Straight-backed cars, complete with running boards, can be seen.