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It eventually became a convalescent home and medical rehabilitation center for the North East Metropolitan Region and was closed and demolished in 1986.

The one on the right appears to belong to the North British Railway. Dunoon handled 10,000 visits by steamers every year.

St John the Evangelist, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house designed by the architect Norman Shaw, to the north

Beside him stands the post donkey, who was vital to efficient and regular deliveries in this isolated village in North Devon.

All that remains of the Saxon building is a carved doorhead in the north transept and some paving in the south transept.

This view looks north towards Barton Seagrave Hall, just visible beyond the tall lime trees. Since the 1950s, the cottages have been restored and a road now cuts close to them.

The north-east quarter of Overstone Park is heavily wooded.

This view looks north along Trumpington Street, with Pembroke College on the right, and Peterhouse on the left.

Standing on the north-west side of Moat Road, this was an Anglican school for girls, run by St Margaret's Convent.

These days, Aberdeen is famous for its association with North Sea oil, but shipbuilding, fishing, papermaking and the quarrying of granite have all played their part in the city's development.

Just beyond is the North Eastern Railway's bridge over the Wear.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet moat

This view of Great Gable is unusual, as it is taken from the north. The usual view of the shapeliest mountains in the Lake District is from the head of Wasdale, where it dominates the scene.

In June 1840, Thomas Cook arranged a members' excursion to York by way of the Leeds & Selby and the York & North Midlands Railways.

Taken from the upper storey of a cottage in Church Street, this view of the north side of the church looks beguilingly medieval.

This landmark, familiar to drivers on the A1, was in the 1950s THE place for film stars to stay on their way north, and most of the cars we see here are in the luxury class.

This view looks north to the thatched cottages, Nos 456 and 458.

greenhouse in England is said to have been made and erected in Newnham by Sir Edward Mansell, who established the country's earliest coal-fired glass- making furnace at a works to the north

In the 1880s the Severn and Canal Carrying Company advertised daily services to Bristol, Gloucester, Kidderminster and towns further north.

Immediately north of the Town Hall there used to be a small park or square.

It is now a fragment: the nave north aisle is now the parish church with a monumental 15th-century tower capped by a squat spire.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

The North and South Brinks, sombre rows of mansions and warehouses, look out over each other on opposite sides of the river.