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Stevens's Boatyard withdrew to the west parts of Nag's Head Island beyond the bridges, and the Abingdon Bridge Restaurant and Tea Rooms took over their buildings to serve river- borne

This view shows the close connection of the town with the river. Bewdley was an important trading centre where road traffic met river traffic.

Many visitors come to the church to see the 13th-century tomb of Ralph Wysham, his feet resting on a dog - which is supposedlyhow his body was found, feet resting on a favorite hound, when the Lord of

The park is the home of Abergavenny Rugby Football Club, and their grandstand can be seen in the middle distance.

In the centre of the picture, in Water Street, is Priory Farm, which once belonged to Earls Colne Priory in Essex.

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

The Holy Well is probably the oldest known well on the Edge.

This photograph hardly does justice to the most magnificent of all British hillforts. Sir Mortimer Wheeler excavated it between 1934-38.

Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC. Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community.

The small village of Leeds is dominated by the presence of its large romantic castle. The castle is Norman, but there was an earlier Saxon castle on the site.

The camera is on top of the Victoria Tower above the House of Lords. Immediately below is the abbey's chapter house, where parliament once met.

Most of the architecture is Victorian, including the fine Market Hall in the middle distance, slightly left of centre. The central church has gone, to be replaced by a store.

The sign for the King's Head Inn is on the right of the picture, although the King's Head itself is in fact on the opposite side of the road standing next to the International Store.The old Town

The ornamental cannons, mounted on far too new-looking carriages, add a romantic if not very realistic contribution to this scene.

The river weaves its way southwards from the pastures of Quorn and Cossington into the almost solidly developed northern edge of the city between Birstall to its west, and Thurmaston

Since Saxon times, Canterbury has been the spiritual capital of England. The cathedral was rebuilt in the 12th century, when it began to assume the form in which we see it today.

Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

A century earlier, during the Civil War, one Roundhead sergeant said of the local people, 'The inhabitants are totally ignorant in the ways of God, and much addicted to drunkeness and other vice

The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966. On the skyline stands the monumental mine chimney at the summit of Kit Hill.

At the turn of the century Wetherby was described in some tourist guides as 'a town of no interest'.

The lanes from Bentham lead on to the A46, behind the photographer. Cheltenham is six miles away. This is an early shot of the Crosshands roundabout at Brockworth.

Guisborough is the ancient capital of Cleveland. It was here, during the reign of Elizabeth I, that the first alum works in England was opened.

The flour and malting mills on the far bank dominate this peaceful riverside scene.