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The first ones started running in 1923, and carried on until 1963.

The Maxim Flying Machine is operating, and several of its gondolas can be seen whizzing round and round.

Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.

Historian Arthur Mee, in his book 'The King's England - Oxfordshire,' says that 'if our England is a garden Great Tew is one of its rare plots...never anything but beautiful'.

The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

Chalford always was - and remains - a curious blend of the picturesque and industrial.

Beyond the village rises Wetherlam, the most northerly of the Coniston Fells, and over to the left, hidden by cloud, Lancashire's highest peak, the Old Man.

A closer view of the massive entrance to Peak Cavern, said to be the largest cave entrance in Britain.

The great state bed of Haddon was removed during the 9th Duke's restoration, and is now kept in the picture gallery at Belvoir Castle.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London-Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

The Church of St Just has a 15th-century tower which was built to hold a light for shipping. This may have helped local boats, but the nearby Dodman Point claimed many ships.

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.

Traditionally Nantwich was the most important of Cheshire's three salt towns, although salt production ceased here in the 1800s.

The tree-lined walks by the side of the River Derwent known as the Lovers' Walks have been popular with visitors since the town became a tourist honeypot in the 19th century.

Despite major restoration of the 18th century building in 1903, it became redundant in 1974.

A fascinating early photograph which shows the crags below Hay Top in Monsal Dale, and beyond them the freshly-excavated limestone scree (centre) of the embankment which was to take the Midland line

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

The castle was to the south of these cottages; its outer bailey was bisected by the later Castle Lane.

Said to be the work of I K Brunel, it is a fine example of Great Western Railway Victorian Gothic architecture.

Despite being used by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War as a site from which to bombard Nantwich, Dorfold Hall fortunately survives as one of the finest houses of its period in Cheshire.

Heacham has the distinctive flat beach of this part of the West Norfolk coast.

From the south and south-west, the minster's twin towers, set against a backcloth of Colehill trees, dominate the skyline and dwarf the rooftops of ordinary buildings.

Corringham was a small, remote village before the coming of the oil-refineries: the petrol-station sign in the distance says it all. This parade was built in 1929.

Laindon church boasts one of Essex's famous timber belfries. The annexe to the left of the belfry is a 17th-century priest's house, which later became a school.