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On market day the whole square was full of activity and people came into Nottingham from all the surrounding villages.

The building on the right at the bottom of Pelham Street was soon to be demolished and replaced by Boots the Chemists.

The pavement on the right was the pitch for women flower-sellers on Wednesdays and Saturdays, creating a splash of colour.

A busy and sunny square with vehicles parked on the road in front of the Council House, although the forecourt was for official cars only.

The building in the trees to the right of the picture is Dinham Hall. It was used in the early 1800s to imprison Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother.

The market hall was built in 1888 at a cost of £6,000; it lasted less than 100 years, being demolished in 1986.

The photograph shows a view of Egham High Street, looking east. The King's Head Hotel, seen on the right in the photograph, dates back to the early 17th century.

Built in the 18th century, Tapton House is where railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson spent the last years of his life.

This is the more subdued face of the Heath the shot is not packed with action. The ponds have for many years been used for swimming, fishing and sailing model craft.

Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.

The cottages are typical fishermen's homes of the time; the stairs led to living quarters, while the ground floors were the fish cellars and boat stores.

the old cottage on the left at the bottom of the hill is now listed as a historic building, and is equally well preserved today.

The imposing figure of Lord Palmerston surveys Romsey's Market Place.

The white cottage on the left used to be the Post Office, before it was moved to the other side of the road in the 1930s.

Here we see the central bandstand on the seaward side of the parade. Here the audience are assembling for what looks like a Sunday Concert.

After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

Later pictures show a huge wooden jetty on the far (Dittisham) side, which was used for embarking the large number of commuters for Dartmouth.

The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell. A bloody Civil War battle took place near here in 1644.

Martin's General Stores, on the right, also served as the local post office for this pretty village south of Frensham Ponds, which William Cobbett failed to reach one stormy night in November 1822 after

Younger fishwives did not sell fish, but helped with the cleaning and salting of the catch.

Two of Westgate's leading hotels were the Beach House Hotel on the left, and the large St Mildred's Hotel and Bathing Establishment (centre).

In living memory, convicts from the nearby prison worked a great deal of the stone.

Ducks dabble peacefully in the beck which runs through the centre of the village, while a mother proudly poses with her baby.

Margate's famous Jubilee clock tower is prominent in this picture of the beach.