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Present- day attractions at the nearby Leisure Centre, built in the early 1970s, are extensive and include an indoor pool, a sports hall, trampolines, squash and badminton courts, a gym, a sauna, a

The 16th-century Chantry in Hadham Road was built on the site of the original priest's house on lands granted under the will of Baldwyn Victor.

Since the 1930s thousands of houses have been built in Portchester. The A27 is at one end of Castle Street. From the White Hart pub to the castle there are a variety of Georgian red brick properties.

Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house. The timbers of the upper storey have since been covered over by sandstone-coloured paint.

The village is named after five ash trees on the green. Twits Gill was once the home of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903 and Foreign Secretary in the 1920s.

The 13th-century church of St Mary is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area. Mapson's Farm was built in 1796. At high tides the sea comes very close to the fronts of the buildings.

Here we see Victorian children at play in a playground within the castle ruins. The castle, which dates from 1282, was left to slide into decay following its siege during the Civil War in 1645.

Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.

This period was perhaps the heyday of the pier, now named the Old Pier.

Further development in this area included the Dutch Oven Bandstand seen here on the right. This was built in 1920 and proved very popular with visitors.

The nearest crossing over the Trent was at Darlaston, which until 1663 was too narrow to take horse-drawn vehicles: they had to take their chances fording the river.

The Broads have been called the pleasure grounds of Norfolk; they are the remains of a huge estuary that once spread over much of the eastern part of the county.

The tiny church of St Olaf at Wasdale Head is said to be among the smallest in England.

The famous church at Hawkshead sits on a little knoll above the village. William Wordsworth's 'snow white church upon her hill' lost its white rendering in 1876.

Positioned cosily under the downs, and with its cluster of thatched and slate-roofed cottages around it, the Perpendicular tower of St Lawrence's Church rises above the surrounding gravestones.

In 1497 John Cabot, under the patronage of Richard Amerycke, sailed from Bristol in the ship 'Matthew'.

Designed by Manxman Robert Casement and commissioned in September 1854 to pump water from the Laxey mines, the wheel was in regular use until 1920.

One of the oldest cargoes handled here was china clay from Cornwall destined for the Potteries.

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs. St Leonard's church was built in 1895.

Prior to the development of the coastal resort at Colwyn Bay in Victorian times, the old village, lying to the east and just inland from the coast, was known merely as Colwyn.

It is shown here crowded with shoppers and an early car. The street today has been partly pedestrianised. In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

This, the northern gate, stands on the site of the Roman Porta Principalis, the gateway of Eboracum. The barbican was demolished in 1835.

When this picture was taken, the town hall, with its 225 ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime.

This view is taken from the east end of Embankment Gardens, where there was a matching urn to that at their west end.