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St Mary's Church was built between 1875-77 on the site of a former cotton factory in Buttermarket Street, close to the working-class districts which provided its congregation.

The post office and general store were essential parts of village life, so not surprisingly they feature on many of Frith's postcards; these were later sold at the post office counter and the village store

Road traffic was much lighter in the 1950s, but even then Sankey Street represented a major bottleneck on the main A57 Liverpool to Manchester Road.

The school was built on the Green in 1872 at a cost of £700, with accommodation for 70 children. The side windows have gone and have been replaced by six sky-lights in the roof.

Here we see the front of the Feathers Hotel on the right. The building was erected in 1565, although the top storey was added later.

The building has a great number of vertical beams not much more than a hand's span apart.

Built on the site of the Old Rectory, the Basildon tractor plant was finally completed on 20 February 1964. It covered 60 acres of the 100-acre site, and had 1,360,000 square feet of buildings.

A large number of the buildings in the picture are now Grade II listed, but it is not likely that the unkempt state of the High Street in 1955 did much to foster civic pride.

Lying at the estuary of the River Helford, this small port was important in days gone by, for it supported the tin mining industry.

'A grey town and a grim town, pervaded with the unlovely spirit of its fearful prison.' Thus Arthur Mee captures the forbidding character of this remote community, beset by fogs and rain.

In a bid to recapture the public's imagination and recreate the excitement and glamour of cross-channel travel, Campbell's were to introduce a hovercraft service in the summer of 1963.

The route from Eastleigh to the Channel Islands was formerly the most popular journey from the airport with 80% of air traffic.

The cottages on the left of this photograph have all gone now, and in their place is a landscaped public garden area with trees and bushes.

Jesus Church was designed in the form of a cross, in Gothic style, with tall lancet windows in the nave, chancel and transept.

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.

It was not only Wordsworth who could see daffodils; we in Lincolnshire can see millions of them at the appropriate time of the year.

Once as important as Arundel or Lewes, Bramber is now merely a village, the market centre having migrated to nearby Steyning.

Much of its wealth and subsequent Victorian building was a result of prosperity based on rope, sacking and string making. The 20th century has added modern shopping centres and a leisure complex.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

Here we see a Maytime scene of the long, tongue-shaped village green, with the church of St George in the background, and the chestnut trees in full blossom.

One of Dublin's most famous buildings is the Custom House. It was designed by Gandon and built between 1781-1791.

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.

Denbigh saw action during the Wars of The Roses and changed hands on several occasions. In 1468 it finally fell to a Lancastrian force led by Jasper Tewdwr, Earl of Pembroke.

The building has never been an abbey, but took its name from the lands owned by the Benedictine Abbey of Bec in Normandy.