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Here carved in granite on the Victorian Town House, these indicate the age and status of the city. Only Perth and Aberdeen have the Royal Tressure of Scotland on their arms.

Like so many little Kent villages, with its cottages and houses clustered around a small green, Saltwood epitomises the rural atmosphere of the county at the turn of the last century.

The suspension bridge across to a house on the Island is still a feature of Newquay's Towan Beach. Note the bathing machines down by the water's edge on the extreme left.

They are being loaded from the oast house onto a lorry to be taken to market.

Although only visible from its sign in this picture, the Green Man is a magnificent timbered public house.

Sheffield Polytechnic was formed in 1969 with the amalgamation of the Sheffield Colleges of Technology and Art; the new institution was housed in purpose-built facilities on land between Howard Street

Situated on Durnford Street, which runs parallel to Stonehouse Creek, the Royal Marine Barracks were built in 1867 using a mixture of Plymouth limestone and granite from the moors and originally housed

The serene and tranquil Lower Close is surrounded by fine houses, mostly 'Georgianised', but incorporating priory buildings.

One is devoted to a working display of mechanical music machines, the other - housed in a former prison - is the Countryside Collection.

The shops and houses on the left back straight on to the sea.

It still houses the excellent collection of historic weights and measures and the instruments of torture shown here.

At the east end, Lower Close leads into Hook's Walk with its excellent brick and flint-built houses, many rendered and colour-washed. It leads to the curiously-named Gooseberry Garden Walk.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

This serene view belies the fact that this was a busy industrial area until 1914, accommodating cloth mills, dye houses, a foundry and gas works.

This old Round House was built for the use of the canal lengthmen, who maintained certain sections, or lengths, of the Thames and Severn canal, which started near Inglesham, close to Lechlade.

A No 147 bus waits outside The Eagle Tavern on the right, and on the left a fingerpost beyond the Imperial Forces public house points towards the public lavatories in Riverside Gardens.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms, close to an area of open heathland.

Missing, of course, is the enormous Cater House - though the crane indicates that it was already more than a twinkle in the architect's eye.

Scott owned several houses in the city: the most famous was 39 Castle Street, where he wrote many of the Waverley novels.

Jeremiah's Tea House (centre) used to be one of the favourite places to drive out to from Cambridge in the 1960s.

Built to an original design by Sir Christopher Wren, it is believed that Aspley House's chequered history includes a spell as an outpost of the work of the Special Operations Executive during World War

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

Wycombe Abbey School's first architect, was commissioned by the school to build boarding houses, classroom blocks and dormitories, which were mostly built between 1898 and 1902, with the chapel following