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As a port, Looe declined with the coming of the railways, though it continued to maintain a fishing fleet; there were also exports of granite from local quarries, which was used for harbours, breakwaters

When in the 1950s Reginald Hine, the great Hitchin historian, wrote of the town, 'It is lamentable what we have lost during the last 100 years', he was complaining of the desecration of the buildings and

A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).

We are looking south, with a good view of Yarm Town Hall, built in 1710 and standing in splendid isolation in the centre of the High Street.

The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

Good supplies of local oak supported Rye's thriving boat and barge building industry, and as the patches on the hull of the sloop indicate, facilitated repair work.

Two carefully-posed groups of young girls are a feature of this photograph of the village of North Nibley, with the 111 foot- high memorial tower to the martyr William Tyndale on the knoll

In the parish churchyard at Cowley lies the body of William Dodd, novelist, religious author and social celebrity.

This long view of Wendover is taken from the opposite direction to No 44773, looking north-east from the foot of Bacombe Hill; here the national long distance footpath, the Ridgeway Path, leaves the road

The main road was diverted when Napier set out the grounds of Hoo Park.

The tree on the right has since been replaced with cherry trees on either side of the west door.

It was here that both James II and James V were born and where Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI both lived for a number of years.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

Grimsby is a major port, lying at the southern entrance of the River Humber.

West of the town centre, Mill Street climbs uphill to West Street and remains little altered since the 1950s, although the bus stop has gone.

The old Town Hall (centre right) was built in 1752 on the site of the old Guildhall; the front is thought to have come from a demolished mansion.

By 1931, the redevelopment of St Mary's Square was complete. The river to the east of the church has been widened and landscaped, and bridges built to the north and south of the Churchyard.

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the `Bridport News` office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.

This is our first look at Southwold Pier, which opened in the summer of 1900.

At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.

Townley Hall was first opened to the people of Burnley on 20 May 1903.

The houses here are built of local stone.The stream meanders through the centre of the village, and local children play pooh sticks and just watch the stream.The fortunes of the village have fluctated

Charmouth village stretches up the long hillside on the western side of the river Char.