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Not far from Batley, once home to the world famous Variety Club, Roberttown was part of the industrial heavy woollen district to the south of Leeds.

Looking at this view, it is difficult to envisage the hamlet of Keninton mentioned in the Feet of Fines in 1232.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

St Andrew's Church stands on the high ground to the west of the River Ash's water meadows. Adjacent, to the north, is the old palace which belonged to the Bishop of London.

The name of the town of Letchworth appears to derive from 'lecha weorthig', 'the farm by the rivulet'.

An evocative view from the north-east of the part of the town immediately below the Castle and the impressive Castle and prison itself.

This is the corner of Piccadilly, where it meets the top of Market Street. On the left is one of Lewis's entrances. Pauldens, in the centre, moved here after a fire destroyed their store in 1957.

This statue of one of Bedforshire's famous sons was made by the noted sculptor, Boehm, in 1873, and presented to the town by the then Duke of Bedford in June 1874.

This view gives more of a modern feel.

The high walls of Petworth House dominate the west side of the town.

It was not until the early 18th century that the benefits of the large-scale drainage schemes of the previous century began to be felt.

Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

This view is given added interest because it is taken from the top of one of the large waste tips of the old Providence copper and tin mine, which closed in 1877.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

This photograph shows the crowded Promenade the year before the outbreak of war, and looks west to the pier pavilion and the tall buildings of the esplanade.

The church of St Lawrence originally belonged to the Abbey of St Mary at York and income from it was used to support the Priory at Wetheral.

St John's Church, Kate's Hill was erected in 1840 at a cost of £3,000, four years ahead of the ecclesiastical parish it serves, which was created on 15 October 1844.

The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was an early visitor. His grandson, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, stayed here on a boyhood walking tour with his tutor.

Edgbaston is the most famous of all Birmingham’s suburbs.

The abundance of Union Jacks and other flags in this view of Wood Street suggests that the photograph was taken in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation.

Westwards from Folkestone, and now linked to it as a suburb, Sandgate shared in the popularity of its neighbour as a seaside resort around the turn of the century.

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

High up above Todmorden, half of which used to be in Lancashire, we find this small Pennine village with a surprising number of mills for its size.