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Eskdale Green, a stop on the popular Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow gauge railway, is perhaps best known for its Outward Bound Mountain School, housed in this former Victorian mansion.

The very top of the Town Hall that used to house the Council Chamber is visible on the right.

Keay House—on the right—was home to Basildon Urban District Council from 1960 to 1965. It took its name from Sir Lancelot Keay, the first chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

The whole complex was a focal point of entertainment, with a theatre, ballrooms, a roller-rink, snooker rooms, a skating rink, a menagerie, various refreshment stalls, an aviary, a monkey house and a lake

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

The pub has changed from the White Horse to the Swan, but is still a Tolly house.

Between 1921 and 1951 the population of Lancing nearly quadrupled, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of shops, businesses and houses in South Lancing.

The Revolution House, formerly the Cock and Pynot (or Magpie) Inn, at Old Whittington, north of Chesterfield, was the scene of the hatching of the plot for the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which aimed

The church dates back to 1096; opposite it lies the picturesque 500-year-old Priest House.

Morling's The House of Music (left) remains virtually unchanged. Masters & Stevens, the ironmonger's, has been rebuilt, and The Buttery (the white building) has been refitted.

Freston is well known for the Freston Elizabethan tower overlooking the estuary, the Boot public house, and the parish church.

The once busy railway sheds now house the Didcot Railway Centre, where a large collection of steam locomotives and coaches can be seen on display.

This attractive thatched building still houses the village post office, except that it has moved to the right, where we can see a pram and a dog.

Today Gales owns over 100 public houses.

Constructed as the Court House in 1881, it became a bank, then the library. The tall building opposite was the Town Hall, which had lost its colonnaded front when it became a shop.

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In the far distance beyond the road sign is now a housing estate.

Most of the area we see is now smothered with modern housing, and the countryside cut off by the fast dual carriageway to Romney Marsh.

On the right can be seen the public house the Ham Tap, and also Mr Elson's greengrocer shop. Outside is his delivery bicycle.

The Norman church is just visible through the trees, beyond a horse and cart.

The church and the house amongst the trees beside the lake in Eastwell Park make a haunting and atmospheric view.

By this date, Whitby had five hotels featured in the Dunlop Guide: the Angel, the Royal (with 172 beds and garaging for twenty automobiles), the Metropole, the Custom House, and the seventy-bed West Cliff

The houses on the left are no longer there, having been demolished in the 1950s. The road on that side is the Marston Road. In medieval times this area was known as Barton Cross.

The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.