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It had a windmill on the outskirts of the village, and an old gabled mansion which saw action for Cromwell's men during the siege of Chester.

In the 1850s, Cheapside was one of the most fashionable shopping streets in London, with a 'mighty stream of traffic' flowing through from Oxford Street to Leadenhall and the City.

Sir Robert Peel called it 'one of the finest sites in Europe'.

The Bell Hotel speaks of genteel days, and Lewis's store on the right speaks of a more pressurised era of merchandising in the 1930s.

The central part of this fine Georgian building became the home of Sir Lionel Lyde, before the later wing on the right was added, and which at the time this picture was taken housed the Lullingstone

The 1881 census revealed a steady rise in the size of the professional, commercial and managerial classes: in 1890 the city's fortunes were founded not on industrial might but on the realm of international

The 1881 census revealed a steady rise in the size of the professional, commercial and managerial classes: in 1890 the city's fortunes were founded not on industrial might but on the realm of international

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

Few buildings remain untouched by the passing of the years in this sunny picture of the Market Place.

The coat of arms that is displayed on the chancel arch today bears the arms of George III and was restored in 1963.

The main body of Salisbury Cathedral was completed in a short span of forty years between 1220 and 1260, so the interior has an impressive architectural unity.

Much of Colwall developed in late Victorian times as a result of the building of the railway line and its station.

This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly’s great houses to survive. Known popularly as ‘Number One, London’, it was built by Robert Adam in the 1770s.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over the Blackmore Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

Cremyll has long been a crossing place from the Rame peninsula to the Devon side of the Tamar estuary.

The three balls, the sign of a pawnbroker, are said to originate from St Nicholas, the patron saint of pawnbrokers.

Preston docks were once some of the busiest in the country, handling cargoes from around the world.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.

Beyond it, the pair of gables belong to one of a crescent of 1950s council houses.

Notice all the piles of paving stones waiting to be laid into the pavement.

As long ago as the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bridport was a town of considerable importance, boasting over a hundred dwellings, a priory of monks and its own mint.As its name implies, it was

Once a village in its own right, standing on the slopes above the River Bredy, Bothenhampton has now become a suburb of Bridport.