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Around 1955 these three shops provided locals with all manner of things; meat, groceries, sweets, cigarettes, toys and hardware; there was even a lending library.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

Past Cliveden is one of the most beautiful stretches of the Thames with its tree-clad river cliffs.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green. Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

It was built in 1472, and its 140ft-high tower, richly decorated with sculptured ornamentation, is traditionally listed as one of the 'seven wonders of Wales'.

Moving closer to the main town of Southend-on-Sea, The Westward Ho! Boarding Establishment dominates this scene. It went on to become one of the premier hotels of the town.

South of Bakewell, the river runs through elegant parkland that forms the grounds of Haddon Hall. In this view, the lush nature of this wonderful valley is clearly illustrated.

The island ferry was largely superseded by the construction of Snappers footbridge in 1957. The main channel of the Thames is on the Surrey side of Eel Pie Island.

Over on the left is Manchester Exchange station, opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1884 and famous for the long platform which linked it to Victoria Station.

Known today for its massive castle, one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly Welsh-speaking

At the corner of the Market Place is the main entrance into St Mary's churchyard, to the left of the church. No 35 Market Place was the King's Head, which is first mentioned in a deed of 1770.

Here we have a grand view of the railway arches heading out of Whalley.

The Tennis Ground (near left) and the Royal Standard (left) are prominent; the Bonded Store of His Majesty's Custom and Excise was the biggest building (centre right).

Parallel to Stratford Road and to the south of it is one of the grid of streets that were laid out for the town from the 1840s, starting at the east and then expanding westward as land was released

The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village.

On the right is the old Belle Vue Tavern dating back to the 1760s, which was an earlier haunt for smugglers.

This view shows the 'sublime horrors' of the waterfall that the first visitors came to see.

St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

On the left are the shops which came with the 1930s transformation of this previously rural area, while on the right is the Ernest Bernays Memorial Institute of 1870, only really attractive when compared

This is a fine example of Bridport`s eastern countryside, with the Dorset Downs falling away into the Marshwood Vale (far left) from the heights of Eggardon Hill and woods of Knowle Hill (left), in

Marden lies nine miles south of Maidstone. In this quintessential village scene, we see the village bobby standing next to the red telephone box, with a café selling ice creams behind.

This view looks back towards the site of photograph No 77098.

The original tower was probably the first part of the castle to be built of stone, though its internal buildings were still wooden.

On the left, two uniformed schoolboys, probably from either Sutton Grammar or Sutton High School, are about to pass the hedge in front of Cheam Hall as they make their way towards the main junction.