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It is believed that Bainbridge was a settlement for woodsmen working in the great forest of Wensleydale.

Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade. Note the bundles of thatch standing to the left of the picture.

The man handling the tiller of the furthest boat moves swiftly away from the nearer craft.

One of a number of attractive coves on the length of coastline between Torquay and Babbacombe, Anstey's Cove has been a favourite retreat for holidaymakers since Victorian times, when the proprietor would

This busy mid 20th-century street scene shows a fine collection of shop fronts.

By Victorian times it had been transformed into a tea garden of some renown, on the itinerary of all visitors to the Isle of Wight.

Boats moored here are hired out by the owner of the Ferry Inn. The horse-drawn ferry has a history going back to the 13th century.

Willington stands on the Trent and Mersey Canal in the Trent valley to the south of Derby.

At one time striped sunblinds of the type protecting the third door were very popular. Nearby is the church of St Mary the Virgin, parts of which date from the 14th century.

Ashmore is a village of Cranborne Chase, with a splendid setting and a large pond that attracts a variety of birdlife.

Another view of Harrison Stickle, highest of the Langdale Pikes, this time from the valley at the bridge near the Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a favourite haunt of walkers and climbers.

With the opening in 1920 of the Queen's Dock, Swansea Docks covered an area of 269 acres.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

Just beyond the green is the 12th-century church of St Michael, with its Norman tower and font.

This photograph was taken from roughly the site of the old Post Office.

Cleckheaton is another former textile town, five miles south of Bradford, which has had to find a new role during the late 20th century.

The working lives of the Dorset labourers who lived in cottages like these was hard, with poor wages and long hours.

The road here has since been widened with the demolition of the butcher's shop - can you see the legs of meat hanging outside the window of Mason's?

Schoolboys gather outside the King's School, not long before the outbreak of the Great War.

Wisbech's elongated market place bustles with activity on Thursdays and Saturdays.

This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.

On his shoulders would be placed the responsibility of appointing an appropriate workhouse matron with similar attributes, and any other staff required.

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the