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Virtually every building has a shop front, but today the number is considerably reduced, and their uses are less practical - for instance, Hartley Chemist is now a restaurant.

The timber market cross dominates the photograph; to its left is the King's Head with its tile hanging and timbering, a finely-detailed town pub of 1899 by Shoebridge and Rising.

School buildings also made their appearance to the west of the central area: the Collegiate School on Ecclesall Road, built in a number of stages between 1835 and 1911, and the Wesley College (

The name of the village had an 'e' on the end until the railway company put up their sign spelt 'Gisburn', and the 'e' was forgotten.

This brief tour of Stamford has now climbed up to St Mary's Street to look east past the north nave aisle of St Mary's Church to the Stamford Hotel, somewhat over-large for the narrow street and towering

Situated one and a half miles north of Blythe Bridge railway station in Staffordshire, Caverswall's history certainly goes back to at least 1275 when Walter de Caverswell was granted a licence to crenellate

This scene is a far cry from the sight of today's crowds who now flock to the 2.65 mile circuit to witness the thrills and spills of motor racing.

Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

The railway station at the back of this picture is the reason for Dorridge's existence. Until the London to Birmingham railway was built in 1852, there was no Dorridge.

The catalyst for the subsidiary settlement mentioned in the caption to N203006 was the building of two turnpike roads through Northfield, one of which was eventually to become the A38 (Bristol Road).

The building of Lytham Baths and Assembly Rooms started in 1882 midway between the Clifton Arms and the Neptune Hotel. At the same time Blackpool and Lytham were linked by the coast railway.

The shop on that corner was one of the most well-known in all Fylde: Richards the ironmonger's stocked everything that a farmer might need, plus a wide range of domestic articles.

Until the 1930s, trams ran along Prestbury High Street en route to the top of Cleeve Hill. A workman was employed to grease the rails at the sharp bend just out of sight in the distance.

Long Street, which was once known as West Street, has been the main artery of Tetbury since at least the 16th century.

Along Borwick Lane, past the wooden-shuttered windows of a Methodist chapel, is the small village of Warton.

Much of Lancashire was affected by the Civil Wars, and Warrington, an important crossing on the Mersey and chosen by the Royalist, Lord Derby for his headquarters, saw considerable action.

The town's main commercial institutions and shops occupied many of the elegant three-storey buildings along Fishergate.

Work began on Blackpool's second pier in 1867 and took less than a year to complete. Promoted as the 'pier for the masses', it was hugely popular and offered a variety of entertainments.

Even in the humbler areas of town the same high standards of planning were applied, and wide, uncluttered streets and pavements are a refreshing contrast to the standards favoured by today's developers

The 15th-century tower has flushwork patterns on the battlements and buttresses.

This looks like Sunday morning, with people either returning from the church or heading towards the chapel on the Tye. Walnut Tree is on the right, with Wayside and Apple Tree Cottage on the left.

The White Horse is a timber-framed building of 1694, later encased in Victorian brick when the far bay was added. On the left is the corner of the shop, with its penny bubble gum dispenser.

But through lack of funds the tower was never finished. John Constable made several sketches and paintings of this, his native parish church.

Sunbury-on-Thames was only incorporated into Surrey in the administrative changes which took place in 1965, but the village dates back to Anglo-Saxon times.