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Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived.

Situated 4.5 miles south of Birmingham, Bournville was chosen by George Cadbury in 1879 as the site for his new factory and for a model village for his workers.

With the exception of one of the pavilions (which was to enjoy a second lease of life as a clubhouse for a golf club) and the stable block, the building was demolished c1930.

This was the scene of the Rebecca Riots in the 19th century, when local farmers and workers, protesting against the high level of tolls, disguised themselves in women's clothing and tore down the tollgates

The park occupies the original site of Manningham Hall, which was demolished; the land was given to the city by its owner, Samuel Cunliffe Lister.

It was a popular place for holidays, even though the village had been spoiled not only by the ruins of an alum works, but by an iron bridge that carried the railway line between Whitby and Saltburn.

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years after it reached Cromer, Sheringham's close neighbour.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

This pleasant stone-built market town, on the western side of the lovely vale of Clwyd, climbs the hillside crowned by its ruinous castle.

This view shows the commercial centre of Pothmadog, with pleasing old Victorian shopfronts to the right.

This historic city is dominated by its famous cathedral, and has since Saxon days been the spiritual capital of England.

The harbour was developed by the railway companies - wagons of the London Midland Scottish Line are drawn up at the quayside.

The year 1892 saw the opening of the Albert Edward Dock Basin: here we see that dock just a year later. The success of the docks can be measured by the large number of ships tied up there.

On the east side of Market Square was the Bull's Head Hotel, a mostly late 18th-century building which was Tudorised by Giacomo Gargini in the 1920s.

Today, the chapel, with its distinctive green dome, is all that remains of the old Royal Victoria Military Hospital, opened in 1868 and demolished in 1966.

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town.

It was refurbished in 1987-88, so that today the foreground of this scene is occupied by a coffee bar, a traditional-style fountain and several plane trees.

The village of Slad sits in one of the loveliest valleys in Gloucestershire.

The thatched Old Parsonage at the end of the road is late 15th-century. The exposed timbers have been plastered over. A group of children stand by a 19th-century cottage now called White Gates.

Tucked away at the mouth of the little River Wallington is Fareham - much busier around the 18th century than when this picture was taken.

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

This one, between Mounters and the parish church (centre right), looks almost suburban, with the dormer windows of fashionable semi-bungalows around Butts Close (right).

For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.

Each of these photographs takes the eye closer to the village centre with the railway now in clear view.