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To the right of this photograph is the Sheldonian Theatre, designed by Christopher Wren and opened in 1669.

On the left of the picture is the long 900-ft bridge of sixteen arches, and on the opposite bank is the Town Arms. To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.

This beautiful hilly country, now owned by the Duke of Westminster, was part of Old Fylde when it stretched as far as Preston.

The word 'burgage' is an old legal term referring to a plot of land in a town for which a tenant paid a yearly rent in money or service to the landlord.

The Woodstock, constructed in the 1930s, continues to flourish today as it clearly did when this photograph was taken with these cars parked in the forecourt, although the frontage of the pub has since

Hired deckchairs occupy much of the space on the beach. Although many of the older people enjoying the sun are well wrapped up, the boy on the right digs happily without a shirt.

A major find, with 130 graves, the dig was supervised by a Mr Reddie Mallet and one of the diggers was the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould, writer of 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.

The Royal Navy may well have recruited in Polperro, but here, as with the rest of Cornwall, they took only willing recruits.

In 1785, there seems to have been a case of riotous assembly at Lasham, including the theft of the maypole!

We have turned round, and are now seeing the London Road at the end of the High Street.

The house on the left was (and still is) Hallow's post office.

On the left is the sombre but reassuringly secure frontage of the Capital and Counties Bank.

This is a much more civilised image of Walberswick. The pub and the tea room (right) point to the village's new role.

A contrast of building styles greets the eye as Late Victorian Queen Anne meets neo- Georgian from the 1920s, and early 1950s severity jostles with 1930s mock- Tudor on the left.

East Street and West treet form part of the old coaching route between Exeter and Dorchester.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

Grange Farm was offered on the market as building land in 1935, but it was purchased in 1938 by the London Parochial Charities as a campsite for the children of families living in the East End of London

Briery Cave is a small example of a feature found all along the Exmoor coast, collapsed caves; these are known locally as `guts`.

On the green is the war memorial to the fallen of the First World War which was unveiled with due ceremony by Lord Leicester in the 1920s.

In the simpler days of the 1950s, village post offices across Dorset were places where the whole community might meet and were a vital lifeline to the outside world.

Standing out proudly in this photograph of Horsham's most interesting street is Causeway House, a picturesque half-timbered building dating back to the late Tudor period.

A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

Standing at the cross-roads in the centre of the town is the clock tower, which was erected by public subscription in 1876.

The Welsh slate industry developed in the heart of the mountains, and this resulted in settlements in some very bleak and exposed places.