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Back at the Victorian eastern end of the village, the photographer looks north-east across the Recreation Ground, where mothers and children are enjoying the summer afternoon.

This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village.

When the new bus station opened in May 1963 on the site of two former glass works, it was during a period of massive redevelopment in the town centre.

On the left, out of view, is Brandon's chapel, a surprisingly large cruciform Gothic-style stone church of the 1860s and the only building to survive the housing estate deluge that replaced the hospital

The Mersey Docks & Harbour Company also had their offices in the building at the time of our photograph.

The old road is quiet in this view; the volume of traffic seems unlikely to challenge the skills of the officer on point duty! The tower is almost hiding behind the body of the church.

Some distance away from the village is charming Beck Hole, today a magnet for tourists in search of locations from the TV series Heartbeat.

The pure white marble angel (centre left) is seen by all who pass through the Trough of Bowland.

It was rebuilt in 1752 after the remnant of the Cluniac priory church became unsafe.

The first building past the row of cottages on the left was the post office and a beer house many years ago. In the 1960s it was a village shop, but that now has closed.

Looking like a refugee from Disney World, or something dreamed up by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Shakespeare Memorial Building was erected in 1879.

This street, originally called Sepulchre Street, was renamed Gainsborough Street c1910 in honour of the artist. The building was at this time a hotel with tearooms.

Buckinghamshire's County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s. It was given a more ornate entrance building in the 1860s, including the tower.

One that arrived in 1870 to take advantage both of the canal and the milk from the Vale of Aylesbury dairy herds was the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, later Nestlé's factory, still functioning

This is one of the most scenic medieval ruins in Europe. It was undermined and blown up in 1646 after treachery ended its final siege during the English Civil War.

Generations of Royal Air Force recruits will recognise the huts and airship sheds beyond the cabbage field. The sheds were constructed during World War I for the development of airships.

Such was the scale of operations at Vauxhall Motors that the maintenance and building contractors had their own site (foreground) complete with semi-permanent buildings, security and a fully operational

This type of mill predates tower and smock mills, utilizing the simple principal of following the wind by revolving the body of the building round a fixed central post.

By 1965 the car was increasingly making its impact on Uttoxeter, as we can see from the number of parked cars.

Temple Bar was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1672, to replace the earlier City of London gate destroyed by the Great Fire, and was the last of the old gates to survive.

From here we can just see the dome of the Corn Exchange (centre). On the left is the Shaftesbury Café, which became Jay's Furnishing Stores in 1915.

Here we see two fine old coaching inns - the Lion, on the left, dating back to 1500, and the 18th-century George Hotel on the right.

In 1410, the rector of Walkern had his hive of bees stolen, along with the honey, by one John Coke - it is said that the hives were kept in Beecroft Lane.

The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.