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This is the busy main street of the town. Lyndon Sims' well-advertised record shop (note the HMV banner, left) is now a beautician's.

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Indeed, the spacious, well-planned town with its new villas, sea bathing and attractions, caused rich people to settle.

Now further down Bridge Street, Frith's photographer was looking south uphill past the Newcastle Street crossroads.

Situated on the edge of the Macclesfield Forest, the Ridgegate Reservoir was one of the first reservoirs built to supply local towns.

Trams used to run along Mandale Road between Norton and North Ormesby, but that was more than seventy years ago.

The Cartwright Memorial Hall in Lister Park, Bradford, built during the time of Bradford's pre-eminence as one of the major woollen manufacturing towns of the world, now houses one of the city's best museums

On the edge of Romney Marsh, this village, with its broad street, was once a flourishing seaport and shipbuilding centre; it was captured by the Danes with a fleet of 250 ships in the 9th century.

This is a comparatively modern scene in the High Street, showing two-way traffic and a variety of cars.

Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community. The inner rampart would have had a wooden stockade.

Newton Abbot gained in importance in the 19th century by being a railway town.

Yet it has a long history with a number of attractive 18th- and 19th-century houses tucked away in the lanes of the Old Town.

The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here. There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.

This hotel was originally known as the Rose and Crown, but changed its name in 1840 after the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, convalesced here while touring in the north of England.

Ramsbottom is a small cotton town on the Irwell less than four miles north of Bury, and just over eleven miles from Manchester.

The town's first inhabitants were men who worked for 11 years in the 18th century constructing the Trent & Mersey Canal's nearby Harecastle tunnel.

This was the terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and had opened in October 1863. It was closed in 1926, and Ramsgate Station moved to the rear of the town.

There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

The Square is dominated by the 190ft-high Town Hall tower. Even in 1892 it was not the original; that had been so badly damaged by fire that it had to be demolished.

Development spread beyond the immediate area of the town to Bradda West and Bradda East; many of the houses in this picture have been built since picture No 47241 was taken in 1901 (page 113).

Morris's building, on the left, has boldly rounded eaves closers and moulded brick strings of better quality Victorian work.

He also died and was buried here in February 1014. Here we see the 1891 Town Hall with its tottering facade shored up. A year later, in 1956, it received its present insipid Neo-Georgian frontage.

In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.