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The Cod & Lobster has been battered by the elements over the centuries. Three earlier inns have been destroyed, and this building was severely damaged in 1953.

This is because it was in this church that Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, better known to most of us as Lewis Carroll, was baptised in 1832.

At the north end of the promenade the domestic character survives better than in the next two photographs.

This one-street town is one of the most delightful in England; it is a special place to visit and an even better one to stay in, to use as a base for the exploration of Worcestershire.

St Mawes is sited on lower ground 'the better to annoy shipping'.

On the far bank a salmon ladder can just be seen; these were built into many of the big weirs to give migrating salmon a better chance of reaching the spawning grounds upstream.

Its battlemented tower and Arts and Crafts- influenced design makes it one of the better convalescent homes architecturally.

The square shape allowed for better utilization of space.

Today, most of the buildings date only from the 1960s and 1970s - the street looks better in this photograph than it does now.

The High Road itself, ironically, tended to be where the better-quality homes were built.

Because of the relatively small shop sizes the larger retail chains, such as Boots and Burtons, have moved to bigger and better premises in the new Horsefair development - a successful retail location

Just over fifty years earlier, the pioneers of the British film industry had based themselves here because of the better lighting conditions away from London's smoke.

The High Road itself, ironically, tended to be where the better-quality homes were built.

beautiful stretch of the North Pembrokeshire coast is studded with small settlements like Abereiddy, where low, single-storied stone cottages squat in sheltered coves and on the exposed clifftops, endlessly battered

Built on the site of a monastery founded by St Dochdwy or Dochau, the name by which St Cyngar was better known, the present church dates from the 19th century.

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

Although most of the buildings are the same as they were 60 years before in view number 42273, their appearance has certainly changed for the better.

Soon afterwards the group changed its name: it is now better known to history as the Beatles.

What better place to be when a period of quiet contemplation is the order of the day?

They called at a pub, and the next day Parker's battered body was found in a field. His companion was later caught and confessed to the murder.

Trade is quiet; one hopes the large stall well-stocked with boots and shoes has done better business earlier.

The village was once nicknamed 'the goose village', because it was said that geese from Pendleton tasted better than any others in Lancashire.

But he is better to known to most of us as Lewis Carroll, the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled clothes and battered boots, and were probably bought their penny treats in return for posing for the photographer.