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The newsagent's to the left of the picture is Billy Hole's. The family still live and trade in the town.

The parish church of St Mary was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style 600 years ago. In 1930 it was restored and partly rebuilt by Sir Albert Richardson after a serious fire.

The impressive building just right of centre was once Berkshire's old County Hall. Christopher Kempster, a master mason who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren, built it between 1678 and 1682.

The house to the right of the arched entrance at the far end of the street is where the poet Chaucer once lived.

The camera looks away from the original village centre into the alternative Ruislip of the 1930s and towards the Metropolitan line station of 1904.

Remarkably little of the medieval city survives; apart from St Mary Magdalen and a fragment of town wall, the Abbey is the main physical evidence of what was a prosperous town built on the wool trade.

There was considerable expansion of Bath in the later 19th century along the valley towards Bristol. This view looks west along Newbridge Road with its terraces of neat villas.

The north side of George Street is raised above the roadway; at the left is part of Edgar Buildings, completed in 1762, whose centrally-pedimented houses close the vista up Milsom Street.

With just a sprinkling of snow, this delightful scene could very easily make a traditional Christmas card!

Here we see the High Street from the foot of Bank Street, showing clearly the overhead cables for the trolley-buses, one of which is in the foreground.

A tender crewed by two men prepares to cast off from the jetty; beyond, this busy reach of the River Thames is crowded with an assortment of vessels preparing either to take on river pilots for the twenty-six

These two pictures are an echo of the commercial waterways of the past.

Until near the middle of the 20th century, there was plenty of choice for a short sea trip in a rowing boat, a sailing boat, a motor boat or even a speed boat.

Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days

This church stands in an area with a long-standing Christian heritage: it is recorded that in 314 the Bishop of Caerleon was present at the Synod of Arles, the first general council of western Christianity

The grace of Fleet Street in the previous picture is counterpointed by the timeless nature of this rural view, taken the same year on the outskirts of Torquay, possibly at Cockington.

A fishing boat lies in the tidal section of the canal that linked it to the River Nene, which can be seen under Sluice Bridge.

The church of St Mary and the Holy Rood has many historical connections with Donington's famous son, the great explorer Matthew Flinders.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

Madingley is a typical example of an estate village which was remodelled in order to improve the view from the landlord's mansion.

The tower contains a peal of ten bells and a clock, and is surmounted by four open stone lanterns richly ornamented with pinnacles and vanes.

There is activity on both sides of the lake.

The Queen's Hotel has dominated the southern end of the Promenade ever since it was built in 1837.