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Bartholomew Street, on the southern side of the town centre, was originally called West Street.

In the foreground are the buildings of the Royal Institute and the National Gallery, with Princes Street on the left behind the Scott Monument. Calton Hill can be seen in the distance.

Angel Hill was once the site of Bury Fair, but by 1955 it has been relegated to nothing more than a car park. The Angel Hotel gave its name to the square.

Twenty-one cannons, once the guns of the sailing ship Royal Adelaide, are used to start the yachting races during Cowes Week every August. In the background a ferry heads into port.

Harvesters work the fields within the shadow of Netherbury Church in the last peaceful years before the Great War.

Seen from the bridge, most of these buildings survive as cafes, gift shops, and the like. The prominent semi-circular gable on the right in the distance is the famous Roy's Stores.

Here we see Trumpington Street, with Corpus Christi College's entrance to New Court (built in 1825 by William Wilkins) on the left. Just beyond is St Botolph's, one of Cambridge's medieval churches.

Looking down towards St Andrew's Street, with First Court, the oldest part of Christ's College, in the distance. The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.

This view shows the magnificent Tudor chimneys of the Museum.

Up above the Cow and Calf rocks is more evidence of quarrying, but in this photograph the heather softens the scene for the Edwardian picnickers taking in the valley view, top right.

Briefly, the advertising strategy changed, laying stress now not on the 'bucket and spade' charms of Southsea as a seaside resort but on the city's history and its naval and military heritage.

In 1919 Worthing had not yet sprawled up the valley below Salvington Hill, and you could look across to Cissbury Ring without the neat, but characterless, housing of Findon Valley in between.

The white waters of the River Corrib foam through the weir. Salmon still mass below the weirs in spring and the town's former mills have found a new life as apartment blocks.

A pleasing picture of the little pier at Schull. All is quiet, with rowing boats and a yacht moored in the small bay. Note the car at the entrance to the quayside.

Chorley's oldest building is the parish church of St Lawrence, which was built in the 14th century. The centre aisle is the original church; the two side aisles were added in c1860.

Bear Lodge, now a private house, is one of two lodge houses which led to Cave Castle - a folly built in the 19th century. It is now a hotel and country club.

Bartholomew Street, on the southern side of the town centre, was originally called West Street.

There was once a bustling market here. "...where, by report of ancient men, markets have been kept in old time" (Owen, 1603). Note the interesting brickwork on the house on the right.

These ladies are strolling on one of the highest hills in North Norfolk. Pretty Corner is aptly named, and the title applies to them as well as to the wonderful scenery visible from this point.

This replaced the church building in 1704, under the instruction of Dr Thomas Plume.

Cooling Castle was built in the 14th century, and was once owned by Sir John Oldcastle, on whom Shakespeare based his character Falstaff.

Shillingstone remained a prosperous village for much of the 20th century thanks to the employment offered by a milk production factory and the convenient railway station.

Rottingdean windmill looks rather more decrepit and forlorn today, stranded in the middle of the golf course.

The lower part of the tower is 13th-century, though it uses salvaged Roman stone. There is some 15th-century stained glass acquired second-hand from Bacton, Herefordshire.