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This fine church at the top end of the Market Place was situated by the south gate of the Abbey.

After World War I the base of the Maiwand Memorial with its fluted pilasters and stone swags was rebuilt in a harder limestone, for the name panels had eroded badly.

In 1912 the college was an extension college of London University, which is how most of the 'red brick' universities started; it achieved independent status in 1926.

Opened in 1883 the Edward Seward-designed South Wales and Monmouthshire Infirmary was built at a cost of £23,000.

Close by stands Lickey Grange, the former home of Lord Austin (1866-1941), who founded the nearby Longbridge car factory in 1905.

The swimming pool was finished in July 1932, but not officially opened until 18 August that year.

Certainly the Vikings, raiding this coast, used the Axe to seek plunder far inland.

This lovely view shows the upper reaches of Nidderdale above the village of Lofthouse, between Ramsgill and Middlesmoor.

St Bartholomew's Church has a beautiful Somerset tower.

This is another scene that has little changed: there is still a chemist's and candy shop on the right and garage on the left, minus petrol pumps.

The Ford Tractor Plant—resplendent with its 600,000 gallon water-tower (right)—occupied the whole of the No 3 Industrial Estate.

The shops on the left were sacrificed when the new A13 cut across Pitsea in the early 1970s.

The foundation stone of the New Brighton lighthouse was laid on 8 June 1827 by Thomas Littledale, Mayor of Liverpool.

Strictly speaking, the name actually refers to two islets near here which are only accessible at low tide, but the name has come to refer to the whole promontory.

Huins Shoes dominated the corner of Market Place for over half a century, but it has gone now, and a bakery occupies the premises.

In May 1643 King Charles I, raising troops for war, reviewed 10,000 men at 'Crabbe Crosse' - or so it is said. It seems a large number if they were drawn only from the local area.

Next to the towpath is a traditional riverside cottage with a brick parapet gable.

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

Holdenhurst has retained its rural setting near the banks of the River Stour, despite the sprawl of Bournemouth across its more distant meadows.

At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.

Here we see the High Street from the foot of Bank Street, showing clearly the overhead cables for the trolley-buses, one of which is in the foreground.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

A workman (centre) scythes the grass on the village green at Wensley.

Birchington is the westernmost of Margate's satellite villages; the old quarter of this resort is more than a half-mile from the sea front.