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This famous shopping street started in the 1760s as a row of elegant houses designed by the architect John Wood.

In the background is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

Hansom cabs line up in King's Parade, outside the elegant classically designed Senate House to the right.

Edward Gibbon, who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, lived at the Manor House as a child.

The building here housing the Mitre Hotel in King Street was, in 1826, the birthplace of Penrith's Crimea War hero Trooper William Pearson.

Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house.

Carriage building and slaughtering are in evidence in Station Road on the eastern side of Kenley Station, along with some neat Victorian houses.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

It stood here for centuries before the neighbouring resort had a single house. Despite some modern building, it remains as attractive as this photograph suggests.

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

The Abbey was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains. Building work was completed by 1175, and iron forging began in 1200.

This prospect, photographed from Capstone Hill, shows the sheer density of housing created by the Victorians to cater for the influx of visitors every summer.

At the bottom is 'The House that Moved': this historic local building was in the path of a road scheme, and was carefully excavated and rolled some 400 yards to a new position.

A huge community, both military and trading, grew around the naval yards with thousands of homes to cater for dockworkers and public houses in which to entertain shorebound sailors.

The mill buildings on the left are now converted into a house with further extensions, but well designed, and in a very pretty location.

Freedom House was built by 1960.

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

To the right are the post-war council houses and the filling station in the Globe Hotel car park. The blue sign for the M1 (left) is a new addition to the countryside.

In the intervening years there has been some housing infill, but essentially the area between church and shoreline is much as it was in 1955.

This view shows the entrance to the Phipps Arms, formerly the Black Horse Inn. Known locally as 'the Phipper', it is currently being converted into residences.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

Opposite the church are the Red Lion and the Royal Oak public houses.