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A picture of perfect peace and tranquillity is shown here, but Woodchester was one of the places where riots broke out during the early 19th century industrial revolution when weavers and

This crowded beach beautifully illustrates the beach fashions of the 1920s: ladies wear summer dresses with straw hats, while the boys and gentlemen retain flat caps, jackets and trousers (rolled up

We are looking towards the imposing building of the Presbyterian church in the distance and Groundwell Road.

The chapel, at the abbey's east end, was completed in 1512 after ten years of building work.

Here the porch gleams in contrast with the rest of the west end's sooty facade.

Rousdon, now part of Combpyne civil parish, nestles above the great coastal landslip between Axmouth and Lyme Regis.

An old guidebook stressed the health benefits of a holiday in Weymouth: 'Weymouth is much more open than the majority of seaside resorts, and is almost surrounded by salt water.This results in an air

This view from Little Langdale looks towards Langdale Pikes, with the thimble-shaped Pike 'o' Stickle (2,323 ft) prominent on the left, and Gimmer Crag, and Harrison Stickle (2,403 ft) on the right

The ground was established in 1838 by William Clarke, and for the next 20 years he promoted a series of cricket matches which led to the formation of the Nottingham Cricket Club.

The residential suburb of Curzon Park West lies across the Dee to the south-west of the race course.

Maypole Grocery Store (dried peas 1s 6d), Boots the Chemist and Halfords (everything for your Raleigh bicycle) are the shops overlooking the War Memorial, which by then had had the names added of

The statue of William III, originally erected in 1734, stands proudly in the centre, bisected by the tramlines. William has moved several times over the years; he now sits above a Gents urinal.

The building here housing the Mitre Hotel in King Street was, in 1826, the birthplace of Penrith's Crimea War hero Trooper William Pearson.

Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house.

Amongst other things, this spelt the end of the town's two highly-regarded grammar-technical schools, Fryerns and Barstable.

The cottages on the right were once a farmhouse - it was divided at the time of the enclosures. Many of the windows have early 19th-century leaded lights.

The Unicorn Inn stands beside the road that crosses the water meadows of the Granta and takes us to Grantchester. It was extended in the 1930s when the suburbs of Cambridge extended into Trumpington.

This is an excellent view of the fascinating shop front of 'J Cooper - Groceries and Provisions', with Mr Cooper's delivery van parked outside.

The junction of High Street and School Hill is still recognisable, though the shop on the left-hand corner is now an estate agents and the building is tile-hung.

With a little imagination, we can see the noble profile of a lion`s head on the lovely riverside walk through Dovedale.

The large house on the left has been built on South Back Way with a pleasant southerly aspect and a spacious garden.

A delivery van is parked outside the grocer's shop in the Main Street of the small cul-de-sac village of Haverigg.

An empty village street in Silecroft, a small settlement at the foot of Black Combe, at 1,970ft the southernmost of the major Lake District hills and a fine viewpoint across the Irish Sea.

The young woman on the right needs her parasol, because Castle Walk is a south-facing sun trap. A section of this part of Castle Walk has recently been fenced against the sheer drop.