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This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

This view looks back towards the town centre with London Road to the left by the Marquis of Granby and the tram leaving London Road.

Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.

The company began in 1847, and the brewery tower dates back to 1869.

Near the middle of Wales, sheep are driven along a back road near the old market town.

He built a studio at the back of the house, and used local people and places in his genre paintings.

Back into Willingdon, continue north to turn towards Jevington, through Wannock, and onto the scenic Jevington Road.

Ellington's church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the oldest surviving part of the building dates back to the 13th century.

The Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Of interest here are the prams; try getting one of these into the back of a Volvo estate car.

On days of royal celebration, buns are thrown from the balconied roof; this tradition dates back to the coronation of George III.

The High Street has many interesting houses, some dating back to the 16th century.

Conditions here were so bad during the Great Blizzard of 1891 that the local blacksmith and his apprentice had to dig their way to the local well and then dig back across the village to get water to relatives

St Mary's Church at Kempsey lies close to the banks of the River Severn, a few miles south of Worcester.

By the 1930s the tiny hamlet of Hare Street had been swallowed up into Gidea Park.

The Natwest Bank and the Alliance and Leicester on the south side are the finest examples, with the flint-fronted No 30 and the brick HSBC Bank in Cornmarket almost as good.

Caldecott is situated in the rural Welland Valley; its origins go back to Roman times.

Only by staying with the same employer was there any hope of security and a modest pension.The best positions were with banks and insurance offices.

This handsome crescent dates back to 1826 and was originally intended to be part of a seaside resort known as Anglesey, developed by the Marquis of Anglesey.

Speedwell's history goes back to the 18th century, when a shaft was driven underground in the search for lead ore.

In the background is the Old College Hotel, a name that echoes back to the founding of the College of Jesus by the Archbishop of York in 1500.

Dumbell was a banker, a director of the Laxey mines and a Deemster (justice of the Tynwald), but the failure of his bank on Saturday 3rd February 1900 ('Black Saturday') was one of the greatest financial

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

An early omnibus collects passengers bound for Ware, Cheshunt, Broxbourne and Waltham Cross from outside Barclays Bank.