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The parish church of this re-modelled village dates back to Norman times and has a 13th-century font.

Chain and department stores arrived early in Bournemouth, though a large number of family-owned shops survived until the end of the 20th century.

The west front is at the end of a very long fourteen-bay nave.

A long way from his home port of Glasgow, the 'Tarantia's captain is escorted by a tugboat pilot more familiar with the difficult sections of the canal.

The Ferry c1955 The steep loading ramp of the ferries caused problems for longer vehicles, which were in danger of grounding.

An old New Forest tradition alleges that the ponies are the descendants of Spanish horses that swam ashore from the wrecked galleons of the Spanish Armada.

Tradition alleges that Mr Peterson incurred the wrath of the Admiralty for putting a light at the top of his tower.

This is a classic view of the picturesque former lead mining village of Muker in Swaledale, taken from over the Straw Beck from the Rigg Road.

Hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation make up a key element in the tourist economy of Norfolk, especially in Yarmouth and the other resorts of the east coast.

Archetypal 1930s development swishes around the foot of Harrow on the Hill, with its gasworks tower always visible from the village and on the approach to Northolt Aerodrome.

Highcliffe was well and truly within the county of Hampshire until the latter half of the 20th century, and it remains close to the Hampshire border.

The little valley of Trenarren reaches the coast just to the west of Black Head, and the stream cascades over the cliff onto the beach.

This was the main road into St Austell from Truro and the west before the building of the ring road.

This fine collection of medieval buildings was rebuilt in around 1490 by Margaret Beaufort.

The village blacksmith was then an important member of the community.

The Fox is still in business today, one of only two pubs in Hermitage. Today, the inn sign depicts a fox rather than merely the name of the pub.

The tower of Newbury's splendid parish church can be seen from various vantage points around the town.

The row of houses on the left-hand side are known as Cliff Terrace; they look across the sands and coastline towards Saltburn.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

This is how the River Avon looked alongside Churchill Gardens, just south of the city centre in 1923.The bridge in the distance is the old Harnham Bridge—the photograph was taken before the building

Two decades later the same view is as tranquil as before.The creepers have been stripped off, but little else has changed.

The waters of Poole Harbour are seen at high tide with the first incursions of Spartina cord grass which was an accidental introduction from Argentina.

The large barrel on the left would seem at odds with the notion of a cocktail bar today, not to mention the array of fuse boxes and meters on the wall.

A view of the centre of Basildon New Town, the Market Place with its brightly coloured stalls, which was opened in September 1958.