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Having opened in 1836, the Union (workhouse) offered a harsh regime until the abolition of the Poor Law in 1929. In 1948, St John's Hospital for the aged and infirm came on site.

This view emphasises the fine proportions of the church, with its west tower of ragstone, together with its stair turret. In the foreground can be seen the old churchyard.

Ernard de Bois also granted some of his lands in Rugby to endow St Mary's Abbey, Leicester. The endowment was eventually confirmed by a royal charter of Henry II.

Much of literary society visited him here, braving the attentions of his ferocious little dog Wessex.

The contrasting styles of urban architecture seen in Denbigh speaks of its history and its regenerative powers, where medieval and Jacobean frontages are replaced with Georgian and Victorian

The fully restored and working windmill here in the centre of Skidby is now a museum and tea-rooms, both of which are owned by the East Riding council.

The sea wall is the one featured in that most evocative of paintings, 'The Boyhood of Raleigh', painted by Sir John Millais when he was resident in the town.

This small village, now subsumed into Faversham, was originally the site of a Roman settlement and subsequently of a hospital and pilgrim hostel founded in 1234 by Henry III.

Of the workforce of 4,500 men, 57 were killed in work-related accidents.

In the centre of the photograph is the parish church of St Cadoc with its distinctive tower.

The glass roof is supported on ornamental columns made of cast-iron. The market appears light and airy, and there seems to be plenty of space around the stalls.

This was the site of the ancient gateway into Nottingham from the west until 1743.

Brockenhurst is a railway junction well-known to travellers to Southampton, Bournemouth, Lymington and the Isle of Wight.

A tram travels along the main street of Parkstone nearly a century ago.

Weymouth owed its success to the patronage of George III.

A good introduction to Dorset would be to follow the course of the River Piddle from its source to the sea, passing through some delightful villages along the way.

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

Red Lion Square takes its name from the famous old inn on the left of this photograph.

At Furnace, a small town hugging the western shores of Loch Fyne, iron-smelting works were established in the early 19th century.

Early inhabitants of the High Street faced a range of fierce punishments if they transgressed the law, including flogging, mutilation and death by hanging.

By 1921 commerce has taken over, but few of the buildings shown survive today.

It is accessed via Reservoir Road, off Eastern Avenue. It now houses the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and affords massive views of the city and, of course, the cathedral.

The building on the left in view 46642, left, is the Hermitage, home of Frederick Seebohm; very little of it still remains. Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.