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The three balls, the sign of a pawnbroker, are said to originate from St Nicholas, the patron saint of pawnbrokers.

Preston docks were once some of the busiest in the country, handling cargoes from around the world.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.

Beyond it, the pair of gables belong to one of a crescent of 1950s council houses.

Notice all the piles of paving stones waiting to be laid into the pavement.

As long ago as the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bridport was a town of considerable importance, boasting over a hundred dwellings, a priory of monks and its own mint.As its name implies, it was

Once a village in its own right, standing on the slopes above the River Bredy, Bothenhampton has now become a suburb of Bridport.

This view, from the footbridge onto the Island, is a photograph of what has passed - for all to the left of the sash-windowed and pedimented house on the right was cleared away in the 1950s.

Much of this view looking west from the pier is now dry land occupied by the west part of Adventure Island, while Never Never Land lies amid the now much thinned trees on the right.

A little further downstream we reach historic Wallingford, an Anglo-Saxon borough, much of whose 9th-century earthen ramparts remain.

This view looks north out of the Market Place, past the corner of St John Street, with the Old Vicarage on the right.

This view shows the Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence; at the time of the photograph, Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher, who crowned Queen Elizabeth II, was Primate.

Monks from nearby Jervaulx Abbey began the tradition of horse breeding in this dale.

The first chapter's tour starts in the heart of the lush Vale of Taunton Deane in the county town of Taunton, a bustling town with much of its former through traffic taken by the nearby M5.

The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph. Gone are the days when it opened seven days a week from 7.30am to late in the evening.

In 1893 the natural lake of Haweswater nestled peacefully in the unspoilt and beautiful valley of Mardale. At this time the road to Mardale village ran along the west side of the lake.

It was served by Evans Corner and this comprehensive parade of shops on the Rush Green Road at Dagenham Road crossroads.

A continuation of Church Street, Chapel Street leads on to the High Street.

The structure behind the drinking fountain is the Simeon Monument, 'erected and lighted for ever at the expense of Edward Simeon as a mark of affection to his native town' in 1804.

In this picturesque of a long-vanished world, chickens are foraging for food and children playing by the pond.

Most of Alcester Street was demolished in the 1960s, but this small part of it survived.

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

Lympstone suffered economic depression at the end of the Napoleonic Wars when its shipbuilding yards closed. A number of residents moved to Devonport to continue their trade.