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The medieval borough and market town of Bala is still loved for its wide streets in this most rural part of Meirionnydd.

This road takes its name from the bridge over the River Colne, visible in the foreground of the picture.

The ship on the beach is typical of the two-masted coastal schooners that plied their trade in the days before motor vehicles came to be used for the moving of commodities.

The origins of Marazion's name are the subject of some argument.

Stone from Waddington Fell was used to rebuild the church of St Helen in 1901. Only the tower of the old church remains - it dates back to c1500. That too was built from Waddington Fell stone.

The church of St Mary is glorious with snowdrops in winter. An unusual headstone is that of Jenny Preston, showing a witch with her cauldron. Gisburn appears in Domesday Book.

The magnificent art deco Tinside Lido and Swimming Pool, completed in 1933, was a popular venue for genera- tions of Plymouth children, mainly during the summer holidays, as the salt-water pool had no

There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

Jarrow's seven-acre pedestrian shopping precinct opened for business in February 1961; it was all part of a grand scheme to rid the town of its cloth cap image and to drag it into the modern age.

Apparently transplanted from Romanesque Italy, this remarkable church in yellow and red brick was funded by the great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley.

On the east bank of the Cuckmere River opposite Alfriston, Lullington is very much a shrunken medieval village, with its isolated church a good quarter of a mile north of Lullington Court, the farm complex

The hedge at the right belongs to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, a somewhat unattractive Neo-Norman church of 1843.

The Park was laid out by Edward Davis, a pupil of Sir John Soane, the architect of the old Bank of England, and opened in 1830. This view shows the later bandstand in full swing.

Today the scene is more reminiscent of this peaceful picture from the past. Most of the buildings in the town centre are of stone, although there are a few half-timbered examples.

Now known as the Bear of Rodborough, this has been a stopping place for centuries, and played an important part as a collecting point for carrier services in this area of steep hills.

The road system around the Square is beginning to be changed, with one side of the street now closed to regular traffic.

At that time a number of old buildings were cleared from the quayside and the Blakeney Hotel (seen spreading along the quay to the right of the photograph) was built for the sum of £31,000

What is now called Kingsbury Water Park contains 30 pools like this, set in 600 acres of the Tame Valley.

The church is to the right, overlooking the small Baptist chapel with a small pinnacle on each corner of the front. It has a large graveyard.

The first building on the right is the tramps boarding house, on the site of the Chequers Inn.

Although originally captioned 'Holker Hall', this photograph actually shows one of the houses on the Holker Hall estate, which has been in the hands of the Cavendish family for over 200 years and is

The fencing rails almost seem to grow out of the truks of the ancient oak trees, one of which at least has been pollarded.

It is doubtful if a more perfect example of a genteel English sea- front could be found.