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Our clock tower is showing signs of age in this photograph from half a century ago. The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.

A crowd, mainly male, has gathered for the Changing of the Guard in five minutes' time at 11.00am.

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

The London and Provincial Bank on the corner of Market Street (left) opened in 1898, and is still and impressive structure. Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way.

Crowds and some cars gather by the eastern end of Rotten Row in Hyde Park.

To the right we can see the cupola of St Pancras's Church peeping above the Friends' Meeting House.

Founded by Bernard Ullathorne, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, it was completed in 1873.

The name of this village means 'Walhbert's farm', and dates from at least Saxon times.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

The river Dart is one of the many delights of Totnes. Here a paddle steamer reverses off the landing stage. Trips down the river were as common then as they are today.

This interesting photograph shows Hereford Cathedral before the reconstruction and considerable embellishment of the west front by Wyatt, which was completed in 1908.

Birch's pier was a victim of the Second World War: only the tollhouses remained after the damaged structure had been pulled down to assist the needs of a coastal gun battery.

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

This stretch of coast is one of Cornwall's famous beauty spots, with dramatic cliffs and islands all accessible by road from Newquay and Padstow alike.

Fabled Tintagel is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur.

Boscastle's rugged harbour is a romantic inlet, twisting and turning for half a mile between brooding cliffs of slate and shale.

A superb view looking up the Western Cleddau into Haverfordwest with the castle in the center and the tower of St Thomas a Becket on the hill overlooking it.

Kirkstall is one of the finest and most complete examples of early Cistercian architecture in Britain.

The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing.

This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach.

Here we see Addenbrooke's from the roof of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Trumpington Street.

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

Below the fortifications of Mount Wise we can see a variety of shipping, from paddle steamers to ancient naval vessels, which were probably used as training depots.

The Foregate and Foregate Street continue the line of High Street northwards and developed as a suburb many centuries ago.