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Fully restored after having its middle blown out as an anti-invasion measure in 1940, the pier has been returned to its true purpose of entertaining visitors.

The most poignant memorial in the church is the east window, erected in 1903 in memory of the nine men who 'never turned back' and lost their lives in the Caister Lifeboat disaster of 1901.

The Church of All Saints and the ruins of the priory dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and All Saints are closely interwoven. The original church was Saxon.

Talisman Square (top left) was still new and presumably a source of pride to some, but many did, and still do, consider it an affront.

A final view of the Park with plenty of activity around the paddling pool, but with no one in it.

Here we see St Martin's Church after its 1870 renovation, in an apparently spacious setting but with the buildings of old Bowness tightly packed behind.

The Railway Hotel and two blocks of Tudor-style shops were built, but Howard's vision was scuppered by the Second World War.

This scene, looking north along Banks Road from the corner of Eaton Road, has changed very little in recent years. There is still a newsagents on the corner with Alexandra Road on the left.

The first school in Redditch was built in 1820 on land donated by a local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, at the junction of Unicorn Hill and Bates Hill.

The first Welwyn Stores was founded in 1921 at Guessens road, but it closed in July 1939 when the new, larger stores was opened in the centre of the new town.

Down the lane which passes behind it and leads to the right is the pond in which, in Cider with Rosie, the body of the unfortunate Miss Flynn was discovered floating.

By-laws forbade the beating of carpets and driving of cattle through the gardens. The glass-houses on the right produced flowers for town events.

For years two small steam packets provided a daily scheduled service between Gloucester and Sharpness, calling at a number of villages and convenient stopping-places along the way.

The village is the gateway to Bradgate Park, a very large medieval deer park, which was donated to the people of Leicester for recreation in 1928.

This photograph shows the wide expanse of Westgate, a street typical of the old market towns in the area: there was room for animals being driven to market, market stalls, and all the people who came into

This ornamental fountain was provided in 1896 by Joseph Pease, one of the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, and it was traditionally surrounded by beautiful flower beds.

Built by the Wharton family of Skelton Castle for ease of access across Saltburn Glen, the toll bridge was completed in 1869. It stood 120ft high at the centre.

In 1942 Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Beattie, the son of the Rector of Madley, was awarded the Victoria Cross after his ship rammed the dock gates at St Nazaire.

The limestone village of Conistone in Wharfedale is more correctly known as Conistone-with-Kilnsey, with its twin hamlet sheltering under the impressive overhang of Kilnsey Crag across the river.

On the left are the flower-bedecked premises of the seed merchants and nurserymen Kent & Brydon.

On 28 September 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, landed here and occupied the long-abandoned Roman for- tress, which then occupied a promontory overlooking open sea.

The narrow High Street, with its branch of the National Provincial Bank (later to become the National Westminster Bank) on the right, and the local Post Office, shoe-shop, and newsagents on the left, was

They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

The parish register for 1583 records the loss of a Wells ship coming from Spain on the west coast of England.