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Glen Middle Mill 1908 If Sally Spencer, the lady looking at the photographer, came back today, she would see that almost all in this view (except the rear block of Pavey's Temperance Hotel) has

It is a stone town, with one of the finest 15th-century churches in the county, largely built from the wool wealth of the town.

The sign here says 'The Old Cock Inn, by Walter Harrison, licensed in the tenth year of the reign of Queen Anne. Retailer of foreign Wines and Spirits'.

Invariably the village shop and post office (left) was the social hub of village life, and Ardingly is no exception.

Apart from the heavier loss of life during the so called Great War, men then overwhelmingly joined the army with local conflict saw a much wider variety of occupations in the armed forces,

Now past the North Street junction, Frith's photographer is looking north past the covered wagon with its load of barrels and sacks towards the pedimented gable of the 1868 Wesleyan church

South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts

There is some debate over the meaning of the name of Cranleigh. Is it taken from the notion that the lord of the manor once bred cranes or herons for his table? Or that cranberries once grew nearby?

Standing on a 300 ft limestone crag overlooking the Towy Valley, the present Carreg Cennen dates from the late 13th century, though the site has historical links with the ancient commote of Is-Cennen,

Chalfont St Giles retains much more of its heritage and character than its southern neighbour, Chalfont St Peter, with a High Street lined with good buildings, a pond and the parish church

The funnel effect of the town's main street in 1965 can be fully appreciated in this photograph. The Black Lion public house on the right was originally on the opposite side of the road.

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

Our look at the fine schools of Bedford moves north beyond St Peter's Square to Bedford School. This had its origins in the free school founded by Sir William Harpur in 1566.

C i t y A t t r a c t i o n s and the smell of gas mantles being lit'. So much of the old has gone; it could never have coped with modern demands and numbers.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.

Although the east part of Hove developed in Brighton stucco style from the 1820s, it was not until the 1850s that things got going, while the Stanford estate was not developed until after 1871.

While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late

This 15th-century church built of squared ragstone blocks has a tower 75 feet high standing amid a number of chestnut trees.

A team of farm-workers undertakes the laborious task of spraying a field of hops with liquid soap, or possibly a copper solution, to ward off insects and fungal disease as the crop nears harvesting.

St Columba was a member of the O'Neill clan; he left Ireland after the battle of Cuil-dremne.

In 1645 old Thomas Wright was ejected from the living, presumably because of his known Royalist sympathies and his refusal to give up using the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

Belford is just one of many places in Northumberland that suffered during the cross-border raids that were a feature of life in the North for several centuries.

This is one of Kent's most haunted villages. Ghost hunter Andrew Green recently looked into these tales for a new book, and found only one haunting still allegedly occurring.