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The Church of St Michael was built in the 14th century and enlarged in the 15th century. It has a 16th-century rood screen and a clergy stall of carved medieval bench-ends.

Much of the town dates from between 1890 and 1939, and many of its residents were employed by the railway.

The photographer was standing towards the northern end of Hagley Road, looking towards Stourbridge. The view is greatly changed today, with the cottages on the left barely recognisable.

The coming of the railway caused semi-rural Olton to urbanise rapidly. In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.

Henry Hills was the first headmaster of Accrington's co-educational technical school, which opened on 28 August 1895.

This view of Long Eaton's Market Place is a real snapshot in time.

Par Harbour was built in 1830 by mineowner Thomas Treffry, known as the 'King of mid-Cornwall'.

This bustling scene captures the essence of many small towns in the 1960s before the arrival of multiple retailers introduced a uniformity to almost every shopping street everywhere.

It was situated next to the former Wanborough Brewery, now demolished - a close of new houses has been erected on the site.

This old school was built in the 1850s, but in recent years it has been converted into a number of separate private houses.

This dizzying view from the summit of High Tor looks north towards Matlock.

Bowls has long been a popular game in Lancashire, and there is considerable rivalry between the many clubs of its towns, villages and pubs.

The castle had two main towers and a further tower guarding the entrance on the north side.There was no keep. Kentish Ragstone was brought across the River Thames for the construction.

Southbourne has an unfortuate place in aviation history as the scene of the air crash that killed the pioneer pilot Mr Rolls, of Rolls Royce fame, in 1910.

The Torrs walk thoughtfully skirts the ridge of the Seven Hills, and it was of a sufficiently shallow gradient to allow less energetic visitors to take a pony and trap to the top.

Harbour hotels see their share of odd events.

Here at Wardley's Creek, a crew waits patiently as the rising tide approaches its peak to float their yacht from its resting-place, cut from the muddy banks of the inlet.

It is situated on the Avon in an extensive and complex area of water meadows and carriers which control the flow of the river downstream.The parish church is extremely old and surprisingly large

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary. It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.

The lock, its footbridge and the lock-keeper's house have all recently been completely rebuilt as part of a major programme of upgrading all the locks and weirs along the Thames above Marlow.

Rightly one of Reading's best known buildings, the hospital looks more like a cross between the British Museum and an Oxford college.

Palmer Park was laid out on land bought for the town by George Palmer in the 1880s, and his statue, formerly in the town centre, is now in the park.

In the early 20th century, when Beoley was still completely rural, The Village Inn used to be a popular destination for people venturing out of town by horse-drawn carriage or by bicycle.

Topsham, a delightful little port situated where the Exe estuary narrows, long had trading links with Holland, with the export of cloth and wool and the import of sailcloth and linen.