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It is still possible to walk along the banks of the local waterways, just as these Edwardian children did nearly a century ago. A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.

The headquarters of the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank, on the edge of the North York Moors high above the Vale of York with views to the distant Pennines, must be one of the most spectacular in

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

Unlike most churches, it has no tower to mark its position, and few people passing through Astwood Bank will even realise it has a church.

The houses on the right back onto the Ouse. The old house with the parapet gable (right) has been divided into three cottages - one is a shop.

Moored alongside the far bank in this photograph is a floating tea room; the rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well, a popular tourist attraction.

Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.

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.

How many of these men came back wounded to be cared for at Frensham Military Hospital, based at a large mansion, Frensham Heights? How many were to return alive by the end of the following year?

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

A number of retailers and farmers had produce rounds in Alderley, delivering groceries, dairy produce and even wines and spirits to the door, or rather, the back door.

Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge. There are boat rollers by the Isleworth bank on the right, and Richmond Lock is on the left.

Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.

There were even plans in the early seventies to convert the outbuildings at the back into an 11-bedroom hotel.

The back of the Carbis Bay Hotel can be seen on the left.

Later, the gateway would be moved back level with the Hall.

The huge saddle-backed tower is in an unusual position, north of the nave, and architecturally it is interesting for its fortified appearance.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

Ogden Reservoir, north-west of Illingworth in West Yorkshire, dammed the waters of the Hebble Brook, and is now backed by the wind farm on Ovenden Moor.

In the foreground is the railway, and further back stands the church of St Mary the Virgin. The Grosvenor Hotel on the right has now gone, and the building houses shops.

This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

He also donated the new Town Hall, which stands at the back. It was opened in 1909 and above its grand portico is a relief that depicts Victoria's successor to the throne, Edward VII.

The school has a charter dating back to the 16th century.