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By the 1950s, with the advent of popular motoring, Broadway was starting to attract car-borne tourists in considerable numbers.

This village is on Watling Street at the junction with the Northampton to Warwick Road. The older village, Lower Weedon, is to the south-west of Watling Street.

This view typifies the unforgettable appeal of Kersey: brick, timber and plastered houses are raised to allow for the slope, with higher and higher steps to the front doors, and there is a pleasing variety

A spacious green lies at the heart of this charming Sussex village. The church stands on rising ground, and has a distinctive off-centre tower.

Grange is the hamlet at the foot of Borrowdale, where the River Derwent, seen on the left of this photograph, meanders through water meadows into mighty Derwent Water to the north.

Here we see Conigar Walk running down the bank of the River Usk.

There is a strong similarity in the design of the towers of All Saints', St John's and St Martin's churches.

A view of St Mary's Church in 1931, with the War Memorial in the foreground. In 1752, the Revd William Cole wrote that the tower was: 'one of the most clumsy and heavy ones I ever saw'.

East of Ashford, and now subsumed by it, the little village of Willesborough possesses two landmark structures.

Penryn sits at the head of a creek in Falmouth harbour. At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.

Not all of his perambulations were without incident. On one occasion the poet was mobbed by a group of lady fans, who cut his hat to pieces as souvenirs.

This small church on the outskirts of Portsmouth dates from 1872, and the north aisle from 1875.

Luton has its parks to remind us of how great houses and landowners gave way to the needs of the many, with great estates being turned over to the people.

Opposite is Eastgate House of 1590, now part of the Charles Dickens Centre.

A final view of Gravesend, this time showing the narrow High Street. No cars can be seen.

Considered to be one of the finest boulevards in Europe, Princes Street was the place to shop and eat. Restaurants included a branch of Ferguson & Forrester, the Royal British, and Littlejohn's.

In the heart of the town the church and the grand Market Hall are the key buildings.

The 14th-century tower and spire of the parish church dominates the market place and school to its south, while to the east, the castle remains combine to produce the classic juxtaposition of lordly and

The air of a monastic undercroft, with its heavy circular columns and chamfered pointed arches, pervades the photograph.

As Granby Street sweeps right towards the Clock Tower, the photograph clearly illustrates the unspectacular variety of buildings to be seen in the city centre.

On the right is a statue of Richard Oastler, who fought against the use of child labour in the mills.

The Church of St Paul has a 15th-century stone pulpit and an Elizabethan communion table.

Some of the buildings on the tip of Sandbanks are coastguard cottages.

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.