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The clearance of the navigation was a very contentious issue in the early 17th century and an Act enabling the building of locks and wharves was not passed until 1664.

The man with the horse and cart on the left is at the village pump, which is situated in front of the Methodist Chapel.

In 1111967 Accrington Corporation took over the maintenance of the graveyard at St James' Chruch. Several tombstones were removed, and the graveyard was tidied.

The longest canal tunnel in Scotland is on the Union Canal. It was built because the Forbes family did not want Callendar House to look onto a canal. The tunnel is 630 metres long.

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

Here we have a splendidly detailed view of Godalming's High Street towards the end of the Victorian era.

Punting on the river in pre-war days. Near here is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

This was the first of the open spaces provided for the workers of Wakefield at the end of the 19th century.

This village was one of Britain's major naval shipbuilding centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. For 500 years, oaks here were used in the building of some of Britain's greatest ships.

Round Oak Iron Works in the 1850s.Though by no means the first iron works in the area, it would become the most important.

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson. Fire bricks were produced here in the second half of the 19th century.

A nostalgic scene of tiny Dooega, a cluster of cottages on the south western seaboard of Achill. Fishing nets are left out to dry on the cobbles at the top of the beach.

At the other end of the extended village of Gronant, before the area was given over to holiday accommodation and caravans, the post office not only sold stamps but also petrol and paraffin.

John Askew, who was at one time Liverpool's harbour master, founded the Egremont ferry service. The service finally closed in 1941 after the pier was badly damaged when a ship collided with it.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

This row of twelve cottages bears a large crest in the centre with the date 1905.

The long main street of Dorchester probably established its present line at the time of the Romans, and has been used by travellers since.

The Harrow stands on the road to North Ockendon.

Non-conformist places of worship, such as this Baptist chapel erected in 1876 at Cononley, just south of Skipton in Airedale, are common in the villages of the Yorkshire Dales, reflecting the stubbornly

This view shows the bridge over the Cam Beck at the top end of Ketttlewell, a charming village in the heart of Upper Wharfedale.

The Mansions still exist, but the hotel was demolished to make way for the M8 motorway, Kingston Bridge crossing over the Clyde at this point.

In the middle distance can be seen Queen's Bridge over the River Lagan, and beyond is industrial Belfast hard at work.

This 17th-century church is famous for the Skelmorlie Aisle, which contains the tombs of Sir Robert Montgomery and his wife.

Built at a total cost of £4000 including land, St Leonard's Church opened in 1873, the same year that St Leonard's district was created.