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The museum was erected in 1881 as a 21st birthday present for Walter Rothschild by his mother at a cost of £3300.

It originally started as just five women students assembling in a house in Cambridge to be tutored by Mrs Jemima Clough; as the establishment grew, it moved into a building in the suburb of Newnham, taking

However, some areas of the Durham coast were polluted with spoil dumped directly into the sea from nearby collieries.

Covering 350 acres, Penshurst Park has many fine oaks; a chancel screen in St John the Baptistís church is made of Penshurst oak.

The church of St Mary and St Hugh was badly damaged by fire in 1708, which burnt down the spire and melted the bells.

The 'No Waiting' road sign (left) was used during the 'unilateral waiting' period, when vehicles could wait on one side on odd days of the month and on the opposite side on even days.

Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, the architect of the Grand Hotel, Scarborough and the Leeds Town Hall, this splendid structure joined Ben Rhydding Hydro in putting Ilkley firmly on the water cure map.

In 2004 the Friends of Turner's House group was set up to support the owner of the house, Professor Harold Livermore, in his wish to leave the house to the nation.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

To the right is the Gun Garden, where prize firings of cannon were held every year by the Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery in the 1860s during the French invasion scares of that decade.

St Mary's Church is on rising ground west of the town, with Lowndes Park to its north and east and The Bury to its west. The large cruciform church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

Off the north side of the High Street, the buildings are encroachments on the market place; Bletchingley had been a borough by the 13th century.

We are upstream of the bridges. Nag's Head Island is in the centre with its hotel fronting the bridge, and Stevens's Boatyard are the white buildings to the left.

Originally quarried by the Hayward family and later rented to the Webber family, Dancing Ledge was owned by schoolmaster Thomas Pellatt of Durnford Preparatory School.

A lot has happened in the space of just ten years since No H252584 (above) was taken.

That Meryl Streep moment, as it became after 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' had been filmed here in 1980, with the Outer Breakwater of the Cobb awash in a bursting south-westerly wave.

In 1924, Richmond House, a large house with extensive grounds on the river-front by the Embankment, came into council ownership, following an unsuccessful bid at auction, a fumbled attempt at compulsory

This great fortress was built by Hamelin Plantagenet, half-brother of Henry II.

Steps, fish stones and butter slabs were alongside, covered with produce on market days. Prices for markets as far off as Preston were set here.

The train was installed to exploit the tourist potential of the attractive yet relatively inaccessible Great Orme, and was opened in 1902.

As the River Ure gathers pace, augmented by Semer Water, it flows over some of the most spectacular falls in the Dales.

Kippax and its neighbour Great Preston grew up around the coal mines of the district.

At the end of the 20th century, unfortunate changes were inflicted on this view.