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We are now back at the junction with Hursley Road where Bournemouth Road becomes Winchester Road.

The original Red Lion, after which the street was named, stood at the junction with Germain Street and, due to road improvements, was replaced by a 1930s neo-Georgian road house style pub.

Dunstable Street housed most of the 'household' shops in 1955 - the situation has considerably altered since then as the town has expanded its boundaries.

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century. It has always been an extremely important church as a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

It is difficult to imagine from this idyllic scene that Tintern was once heavily industrialised.

'When the evening sun falls over St Davids Cathedral, gilding the old stone, shining on the gentle green hills, the white twisting roads and the little farms, the smallest “city” in the kingdom lies lost

Here we see a young woman standing at her husband's shoulder. He is probably an amateur artist, painting the picturesque and romantic scene.

A church existed on this site at the time of William the Conqueror, and the Domesday survey lists its patron as Roger de Poictou.

Walmersley was a township within Bury on the east bank of the Irwell.

In July 1333 Archibald, Lord Douglas led the Scottish army in a feint towards Bamburgh in the hopes of drawing the English away from Berwick which they were besieging.

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. The Tiger Inn is a fine building that was a barracks during the Napoleonic wars.

Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.

This photograph proves that the people of Gloucester enjoyed the waterways of the city in the earlier part of the 20th century.

If you compare this photograph with the reality of the scene today, it would seem at first glance as if time has stood still here.

Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area. The original castle is thought to have been built by Bertram de Verdun, who also founded the Cistercian abbey at Croxden.

Marked out by plough according to the great architect Sir Decimus Burton's directions, streets radiated from the Mount, which was the highest point in a chain of sandhills.

On Ash Wednesday and St Mary Magdalene's Day (22 July) each year, a fun fair is staged in the Chipping.

This town was almost completely formed and defined by the production of coal.

While not obvious from this photograph, Gresford is most famous for the tragic mining disaster of 1934 when 266 lives were lost following an explosion and fire at the Gresford Colliery.

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

The town of St Helens derives its name from the early chapel dedicated to the saint.

Linking Harrison Drive and Breck Road, Wallasey Village has always been just that; no Road, Drive, Way or other title, because it doesn't need it.

For 400 years, until the family line died out, the influential Shireburnes lived at Stonyhurst. Each generation made changes.