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This view over Victoria Pier gives a good idea of the variety of ships and smaller boats that could be seen sailing off Cowes on an average day between the wars.

This shows the bank designed by Archibald Simpson (1839), topped with a statue of Demeter, and a large block of houses by John Smith (c1810), showing Smith's characteristic recessed, curved corner.

Simple but striking; the War Memorial in remembrance of World War I is a double circular colonnade enclosing the Cenotaph.

The late 19th-century industrial face of the village percolates through the photograph, providing a dramatic contrast to Church Lane, which runs almost picturesquely away to the right of the cross.

This view of Waterhead shows the Waterhead Hotel, built to serve the increasing numbers of tourists who were arriving by train at the lakeside station at Bowness, and catching a steamer up the

On the left, the high walls at the rear of the gardens give an indication of the flood problems associated with living on a river.

The front of this charming Georgian house, with its bay windows and portico at the front door, is now obscured by the addition of a single-storey annexe which provides a riverside eating area for customers

This view of the riverside promenade looks past the Archbishop's Palace to Maidstone Bridge and the chimneys of the industrial area beyond.

The scene is dominated by a colossal cast iron lion weighing 16 tons, erected to commemorate 300 men of the Royal Berkshire Regiment who died in the Afghan campaigns of 1879-80.

This fascinating photograph shows the intricate detail and sumptuous carving of St George's Chapel.

St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames.

This view, one of the earliest in the book, shows the east end of the cathedral with no east chapel, only ragged masonry. The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

After 1856, a residence north of the border of not less than three weeks was required before a marriage could take place.

This shows another aspect of the delightful river Lathkill.

Kingsgate, surmounted by the little church of St Swithun- upon-Kingsgate, is one of just two surviving medieval gateways at Winchester.

By the 19th century the North Gate had suffered from years of neglect (see picture 25412), and was in danger of disappearing altogether.

This scene looks over the top of the stage and the pier can be seen in the background.This Parade has always been a popular walking area, with its occasional views of the sea through the trees.

This picture shows Deganwy before it had pretensions of being a resort.

This Norman nave is the longest of any parish church; the Miraculous Beam was originally in the nave. The reredos is shown hung with flags of the victorious Allies.

This panoramic view is very evocative of two major factors in the city's history: the rolling hills which surround it, and the rows of terraced worker's cottages, which testify to the city's once significant

Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of quarrying and erosion.

The youthful trees on the left are in the centre of the square, where the inn sign for the old-established Duke of York Hotel is just visible.

The only traffic is a horse-drawn conveyance in this view of the cross-roads village on a ridge of the High Weald above the River Rother. Today, Stonegate is close to the Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

Now a northern suburb of Worthing, Broadwater was once a small coastal settlement.