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The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr

Perched on the summit of Ludgate Hill at almost the highest point in the City,Wren’s masterpiece is the pride of London.

Situated 3.5 miles south-south-west of Crieff, Drummond Castle was originally built by John, first Lord Drummond in 1491. It has endured its share of troubles.

This archway and wall date back over two hundred years; it is known as Gannock Gate, and forms part of a huge park known as The Walks, where it was the perfect place for fashionable folk

The event that prompted this wonderful assembly of motor vehicles of the day was probably related to St Paul's Church in the background. Unfortunately, history does not record what it was.

The Redcliffe had a hydropathic plunge bath on the seaward side of the building, connected to the house by a subway that filled with seawater at high tide.

The body of the church is 14th century, but any patina of age was effectively neutralised by the over-restorations of 1849 and 1857.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

In 1913 the Council received an offer of land skirting Woodcote Hall from Lord Rosebery as 'proof of my deep and abiding affection for Epsom'.

The early period of its history has left a great deal of physical evidence in the street pattern as well as some buildings, while documentary references further flesh out the picture.

Boots the Chemists' library (behind us, at the corner of Market Street) was upstairs, approached by a wooden staircase.

This is the mother-church of Sudbury, with St Peter's as its chapel-of-ease.

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

The old coaching inn known as the Rainbow was one of the many which had run back from Kendal's main streets since the Middle Ages.

The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented

In this view of the square, coaches are parked in the broad open expanse. The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

We are standing at the corner of Lady Lane, looking east. It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere.

By the banks of the graceful River Wensum is the 15th-century gateway to the city's diminutive canal, which penetrates its way to the margins of the cathedral.

Inside is a splendid collection of a hundred portraits of members of great East Anglian families, which were bequeathed by the antiquary Prince Frederick Duleep Singh.

An exhibition of fine art was held in the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital in 1866.