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West Borough's town houses are mostly mid-to late-18th century, built when this part of Wimborne was first developed. Note the first-floor bay window on the right.

This lonely land was well protected by the Home Guard during the Second World War, when there was a great fear of invasion - just as there had been 150 years earlier during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte

This is largely because this area, being close to Llanelli, was sitting on a bed of pure anthracite coal, which stunted the growth of vegetation.

The pleasant sunshine seems to have forced the owner of the shop on the right to lower the blinds. However, the absence of any signboard would suggest that it was unoccupied.

Named after the founder of the steel works, this imposing brick building in Rockingham Road was constructed in 1937 to cater for the large number of schoolchildren coming into the town and to ease

A group of children pose for the photograph.

This row of 18th-century timber-framed cottages had a red brick façade added in c1820. The shop has now shut, and its frontage has been replaced to blend in with the rest.

Here we have a fine view of St Mary's Church from Church Street.

Founded in Saxon times, the church we see now largely dates from around the 14th century; a local legend says that when ivy grows to the top of the spire the end of the world will be nigh.

Situated on the B2150 between Waterlooville on the A3 and Droxford on the A32, it is only 20 minutes from Portsmouth and 30 minutes from Southampton. Today it has a population of over 6,000.

Rows of black cars line the sides of the road. Today there are estate agents, an optometrist and a surgery here; the surgery dates from 1937 when Dr Cheyne opened it in his Havant Road home.

Pilley is one of six hamlets making up Boldre in the New Forest. The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

Prominent on this main road was Rushton's poultry shop on the left. At Christmas especially, rows of pheasants, rabbits and hares hung here, along with other game, poultry and fish.

The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter.

Leading up Pier Avenue from the Marine Parade corner, the first pair of houses on the left, known as Clarence Villas, was built in 1874.

The orderly mooring of boats assists any single one to slip her lines and negotiate the harbour entrance without causing disturbance or damage to neighbouring craft.

Today the village is mainly the province of pleasure craft, who clog the quays in the months of summer.

The area from the Duke of Wellington statue to Market Street was once a large ornamental pond complete with fountains, which had delighted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their visit in 1840.

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

The running of the postal service in Victorian times was considered vital to the public good.

At the turn of the century Wetherby was described in some tourist guides as 'a town of no interest'.

During the Protectorate in the 17th century, the cathedral was in danger of being pulled down.

Little survives of the old town, although parts the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its beginnings.The 130 ft high neo-Gothic