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On the left the former Rifleman's Arms, then a private house, occupies the corner in the Market Square. This was later demolished, and today is a raised area with seats.

To the right there is another shelter, but this has been removed. The small structure on the right was a bandstand.

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

Another infamous resident was Lady Luxborough, whose husband hid her away there in 1736 because she had been scandalising London.

On the right, one man wearing a cloth cap and another a bowler are standing side by side. In the days when this photograph was taken, the type of hat worn often indicated status.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

This service, broadcasting round the clock in 40 languages, became well loved by 'ex pats', and it was a trusted source of truth and news both during the war and through the succeeding

On the extreme right are the police offices (a very small building) and next come the warehouses in the pier yard, demolished in 1890 to widen access to the Sands station.

Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s).

North of this east-west road, Little Bookham Street has some older buildings amid the suburbia and wide grassy verges.

Slightly superior to many factory houses, with their small gardens, the terrace on the right has a dated stone on the second house: `Built in the year of AD 1897 Victoria`s Reign`.

Another descendant, Thomas Weld, leased the building to a Jesuit teaching order; it became a famous Roman Catholic public school, attended by such notables as Charles Laughton, the actor.

At this date, the town's tramway system was still horse-drawn, and would remain so for another five years. The town'' cabs represented good value for money.

The opulent car has just arrived through an impressive gateway out of view on the left, and has entered a courtyard reminiscent of Tudor times with domestic rather than military buildings.

The view is westwards from Lower Eype to the outline of Thorncombe Beacon (centre) above Lyme Bay.

Built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the keep performed both residential and military roles. Its walls were the same thickness all the way up, which enhanced its defensive capabilities.

There has been a fortification of one sort or another at Inverness since the time of King Brude in the 6th century.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

This massive increase came from those seeking work in the town's coal mines, both from other parts of Wales, industrial and rural, and from the west of England, particularly Somerset and the Forest of

The popular Century Cinema was built in 1937 on the corner of Kingsway Road and Station Way.

Detail, both internally and externally, is paramount, from the clustered brick chimney stacks to the beautifully-carved brackets supporting the jettying.

Leaving the sprawl of Worthing behind, we move west along the coast and inland to Angmering, a village much expanded to the north and east but retaining its historic core relatively intact.

In 1801, while repairs to the spire were in progress, a barber shaved customers on top of it and a china painter decorated a cup.

John Stokes, a 15th-century clothier, built the north aisle; the chancel was rebuilt in 1876. The Perpendicular font, dug up in 1939, is octagonal, with a pattern of quatrefoils in circles.