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The Jew’s House is another of Lincoln’s surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

Queens Road, at the top of Park Street, was chosen as the site for both the City Art Gallery and the City Museum.

The station closed to goods traffic on 30 November 1964; both Wilmslow and Chelford closed for goods on 4 May 1970; Styal in 1963; and Handforth in 1958.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

Extensions were added to the palace over the following century after it was first built. Then in 1647 Bishopthorpe was sold to a Colonel White, who added further to the building.

This was taken to the left of photograph 29932, but now from the Walberswick side of the river. We can see the house with a large chimney stack in both photographs.

The International Stores was popular for groceries; also, note the many newspaper and magazine advertisements outside Martins, the newsagent's shop (right).

Mickleton Halt, costing some £512 when it opened in 1937, with shelters, an oil hut, and paraffin vapour lighting on both platforms, was listed for closure in 1941.

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

Opened in 1755, it is the third such building to occupy the site - both its predecessors were destroyed by fire.

The rather odd looking and out-of-scale motor car in the centre of the road has been transplanted from another photograph - a common practice in the early days, used to prolong the life of a postcard

Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade. It was refurbished and re- opened in July 1990.

Both boys and girls were admitted, having first had to pass an entrance examination. Under the headmaster, Dr Edkins, the school was renamed Accrington Grammar School in 1921.

This is another scene that has little changed: there is still a chemist's and candy shop on the right and garage on the left, minus petrol pumps.

Thomas Paine, the author of 'The Rights of Man' and participant in both the American and French revolutions, was born in Thetford in 1737.

It was in another of the town's inns, The Kings Arms, that Sir Walter Scott did the preparatory work and outline for his classic novel 'Kenilworth', set during the period of the last building phase of

It is often advertised as being the only place in England from which one can watch the sun both rise and set over the sea.

The village postman poses for the photographer, while another villager gets a bucket of water from the fountain memorial to Dent's most famous son, the pioneer geologist Adam Sedgwick.

Another notable building associated with this family is Triangular Lodge, an exuberant folly which was designed as an emblem of the Trinity.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches that has Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the tower.

There is activity on both sides of the lake.

Both pub and Guildhall still exist, and have been subjected to only cosmetic changes. The policeman's uniform and the other clothing have also undergone something of a change.

This connection with both her and John Masefield is remembered at the annual poetry festival.

More had to give both Melplash and his favourite daughter to Lord Paulet, who interceded with the king on his behalf in search of a pardon.