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The tower of St James' Church is still the original Spilsby greenstone, but the rest of the church has been faced with the stronger limestone, hence the different colour.

An excellent view of a working village.

This last can be seen seventy years later in the picture of the railway station (W81011).

This was the older of Whitby's two shopping streets. Puckrin's chemist's shop (the white building on the right) stood for a further forty years.

In 1824 the Royal Manchester Institution was hoping to move into a new headquarters in Mosley Street, and in the accepted practice of the day invited architects to submit their ideas by means of open competition

As well as being in the West Riding, Saddleworth was also in the wapentake of Agbrigg. Wapentake literally means 'show of weapons', and was the old Danish way of voting.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town. The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.

Newton Poppleford is a good base for exploring the Vale of the Otter, with footpath, bridleways and ancient green lanes heading out to all points of the compass.

We are further eastwards on Clifton Street, and the majority of people are shopping on the sunny side. On the right of the picture is the Talbot Hotel.

He wrote most of his 26-volume 'Anglicae Historiae' while in this house. This 'History of England' became compulsory reading in all schools under Elizabeth I.

The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners. By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks.

The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph.

Rye sits huddled around a small hill, on the top of which stands St Mary's Church with its distinctive squat Norman tower.

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

Here was built one of the earliest stone keeps in Wales, a rectangular affair of two storeys, later raised to three.

The tower of the church dates from the 14th century. Otherwise, much of the church was rebuilt in the late 1800s.

Here we see South Bay with a plenti- ful array of bathing machines.

This photograph shows Cornmarket Street running down to Carfax, with the outline of Tom Tower dominating St Aldates on the far side.

This row of twelve cottages bears a large crest in the centre with the date 1905.

This replica of Sir Francis Drake's flagship was built 1947-48. Standing beside the pier, it housed Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, a major attraction in this area.

This view shows The Promenade, or the New Wharf Road as it was also known, before railings and pavements were added.

The Harrow stands on the road to North Ockendon.

Some of its early character remains, but there has also been considerable later development, typical of which are the houses glimpsed here.

Three-storeyed 18th-century town houses, including the King's Arms Hotel in the middle distance, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.