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The village lay on the A4 Bath road, but it is now a by- passed backwater with the roar of the M4 within quarter of a mile. Traffic levels are almost back to those of the 1950s.

Bembridge is the location of a famous public school founded in the first half of the 20th century by the spirited Mr Whitehouse.

This old town is at the heart of a region of fertile farming country known as the South Hams. This view looks down the main street towards the tidal estuary extending up from Salcombe.

This is the site of an ancient ferry crossing; it linked Portscatho and Gerrans on one side of the Percuil River with St Mawes on the other.

This is a most attractive hamlet of thatched cottages not far from Truro. Its church is on an ancient site, for a Dark Age inscribed stone was found here.

Travelling here in 1871 would not have been a venture to take lightly: it was nearly fifteen miles' distance on unmade roads from Ashburton.

Building a hotel here in the 19th century must have been something of an act of faith, for the nearest railway station was four miles away at Bovey Tracey and the hotel could only be reached by coach.

In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.

This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch

With stalls creaking under the weight of locally grown produce, there is no hint of the rationing to come after the outbreak of war the following year.

Seaton is a mostly Victorian town hard by the mouth of the River Axe. Though never one of Devon's more fashionable resorts, it has a charm of its own and an attractive setting.

A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff. The ports of East Anglia have suffered continual erosion down the centuries.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

This is probably the oldest part of the present village. The houses were built on a fair sized, flat piece of land sheltered by Penny Nab. There was easy access to and from the sea for the cobles.

Joseph Wade, a Hull timber merchant, had a strong influence on the development of a resort here following the arrival of the railway in 1864.

Viewed from the position of what in 2002 became a sparkling new piazza, the 1950s Lytham exhibits little of its potential.

Port Skillion at the foot of Douglas Head was reached by ferry from the harbour, fare 1d, and was used by gentlemen only for open-air bathing.

In September 1960 the electrification of the London Midland Region's line between Crewe and Manchester was completed.

St Peter's, the Victorian church in the middle of the picture, was Aberdovey (or Aberdyfi's) first church, though the song 'The Bells of Aberdyfi' suggests that an earlier church lies drowned beneath the

The Stone Bridge over the River Can - otherwise Bishop's Bridge or Moulsham Bridge - is the primeval hub of Chelmsford. There was probably a bridge here in Roman times.

Haigh Hall was designed by the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford for himself and built at a cost of £100,000 between c1832 and 1840.

It is one of the biggest in the country with over 200 volumes, the oldest dating back to 1343.

Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln.

Runcorn is now the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, but there was a time when it continued down a massive flight of locks to connect with the Mersey and the Ship Canal.