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A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, was involved in the initial construction in the mid 11th century, and it is probable that Serlo, Abbot of Gloucester from 1072, did the strengthening work.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

This view of the parade is taken from the junction with Fox Hollies Road, at the opposite end to photograph No A136028.

Stanway Road was created in the 1930s along with several other roads in the area, and is absolutely typical of the development which took place at that time.

Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

The letters BH on the fishing boat indicate Brixham registry.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time of this photograph.

In the background are the former tram sheds, converted to house Saltaire's complement of trolleybuses.

The Godolphins were prominent in the affairs of Helston until the line died out with the 2nd earl in the late 18th century.

The Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.

Gravesend is a busy industrial town on the river Thames; here the river narrows to become a London river, and coastal pilots hand over to the river men.

The chapel is famed for its pillar of entwined ribbands. The story is that the chief stonemason went to Italy to study a similar pillar.

In the 1860s, after the demise of the stages, many of its rooms were let out to lodgers.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Aldborough, just one mile from Boroughbridge, stands on the site of the Roman station Isurium, and has a museum containing Roman remains.

There has probably been a church here for a thousand years, high on the hill overlooking the creek that once flowed from Stonehouse to Pennycomequick.

We see good examples of slate-hung houses; these slates are large, and they have even been used to board up the windows of the disused house on the right.

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

There is plenty of daylight from the windows, but note the oil lamps hanging from the timber ceiling; part of the heating arrangement is seen on the left, foreground. There is seating for 100.

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left. Over to the right is Seaton's temperance hotel, one of several in the town.