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It has lots of different bright materials and extravagantly overscaled carved detail, such as the gigantic capitals dwarfing their columns.

Maesteg was renamed, for a number of years, as Bowrington up until the 1870's, after Dr John Bowring MP.

This is one part of Redditch which has not greatly changed, although the traffic is a great deal heavier now.

A row of cottages with weather-boarding and a thatched roof faces the parish church.

Apart from the fact that there is a pavement on the right-hand side of the road, the scene has changed very little since the photograph was taken.

The box hedges cut into the shape of chessmen in the splendid topiary garden at Haseley Court are well worth seeing.

The only part left of this superb medieval mansion is the 1820s extension on the left. The place fell into disrepair, and bits were sold off in the 1930s.

The policeman is approaching the portico of the former Mayfair Cinema, latterly called the Broadway until its closure.

Children play at the south end of the beach. Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.

Smokers had not become the social outcasts of today, as the Players sign affirms. BP petrol is also available, perhaps for the approaching Bedford Dormobile.

The reservoir's prime function may have been to fill the perpetual needs for water in distant Liverpool, but it also became a haven, not only for bird life but also for the recreational pursuits of the

The nearby hamlet of Staylittle allegedly took its name from a village blacksmith who was so quick at shoeing horses that his smithy became known as Stay-a-Little.

It was here in 1926 that the then owner of the hotel, Mrs Scott-Bowden, organised a cricket festival for women – and so founded the National Women's Cricket Association.

The central bays of the promenade building survive, but the arched bays on each side were rebuilt in the 1950s.

This shop frontage shows the development of the village shop into the mini-supermarket, ultra-modern for its time.

Rectory Road was extensively redeveloped in the 1970s, and many of its small shops were closed.

The Plough Inn, now known as Toad Hall, has long provided a place of refreshment to both villagers and travellers alike.

St Mary's church and the ruins of Whitby Abbey stand on the hill overlooking the harbour.

The buildings on both sides of the road have been extensively altered over the years. Note the Bush Hotel on the right (no longer trading).

The statue of Queen Victoria is gazing over the ornamental gardens by the River Trent.

Henry Heber, rector in the village of Hodnet for a time, wrote the hymn 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty'.

He described Wenlock as an 'ancient little town . . . with no great din of vehicles . . . a dozen 'publics' (pubs), with tidy whitewashed cottages . . . and little girls bobbing curtsies in the street

Each article of luggage carried on the outside cost 2d.

While the cathedral is the main feature of Ely, the town has also been a market town for many years.