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The old village of Woodmansterne is behind the photographer, who is looking towards the Chipstead valley via the switchback road of Chipstead Way.

The Circus at the top of Bridge Street is now a pedestrianised area. The buildings behind the bus have been totally redeveloped, and incorporate a lovely open shopping area known as Golden Square.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

Following a two-year building programme, the £670,000 National Sports Centre opened in 1971 on a site near the Pavilion - the culmination of a ten-year effort to create a central home for

The River Otter meets the sea just to the east of Budleigh Salterton after a 30-mile journey across Somerset and East Devon.

The ruinous 70ft high 12th-century keep is all that remains of Henry III's favourite palace. It was the only royal palace in Surrey; the motte was raised soon after the Norman Conquest.

A few weeks later, she lifted the record for the westbound crossing of the Atlantic from Cunard's 'Scotia' with a speed of 14.52 knots.

The Chapel abounds with monuments of beauty and dignity. They include the Princess Charlotte Memorial, 1817, by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, which combines the sensational with the chaste.

Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.

We are looking down Oxford Street, with the market cross on the left. The tower of Tower House can be seen at the junction with Cross Hayes Lane (right).

Dating from the 1500s (and possibly earlier), the half- timbered building on the left fronting both the High Street and Hickmans Lane has had a chequered history.

The barrel organ always drew a huge crowd with its wheezy renderings of popular tunes.When a trio of frightened monkeys was introduced the attraction for children was irresistible.

Pump Cottage (in the middle of our photo) was—as the name suggests—the source of the village's water-supply. It dates from about 1860. The well pre-dated the cottage by a decade.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

Three girls pose on the wooden bridge leading to the ivy-clad south-west towers.

The Frome valley, dotted with mills and and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry. Chalford itself stands on the steep north bank.

St Peter's is the earliest of the churches in Halliwell. When it was erected in 1840, it comprised a one-bay chancel and no aisles.

The Falcon Cliff Hotel is little more than a dot on the landscape on the left of the picture.

Bournemouth pier stands above the original mouth of the River Bourne. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

Stricklandgate, the northern extension of Highgate, is one of Kendal's main thoroughfares.

Bobbin manufacture for the wool and cotton mills of the north of England was once an important industry in the well-wooded Lake District.

A lad sits on his handcart on the right of this photograph, taken in a yard off Highgate.

West Gate, at the top of Winchester's High Street, has stood on the line of the city wall for over 600 years.