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This put a burden on the merchants, as a hefty toll was levied.

You can see the Roman remains of Olicana in both the Manor House Museum next to the parish church, and in the Skipton Museum.

A half century after the era of Dickens there are still several places where the traveller can take refreshment: Webb's is advertising teas, next door is a tea garden, and beyond that yet another sign

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

It is still running today, and serves both as a novelty for holidaymakers and as a commuter train for local schoolchildren.

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.

Further down the lane we can see another house, also timbered - it was built in 1480.

At this time Church Street and its environs had a large resident population (which moved in the ensuing century to Helredale, the council estate), which provided both a congregation for the church

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

This was taken not long after the restoration of the interior of the church by the Reverend Bell.

At Cleobury Mortimer there is another giant of Wyre Forest, the Mawley Oak.

Both received a round of applause.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

The earliest castle on the site was built during the reign of William the Conqueror, but the present structure dates from 1156, when work began on the stone shell keep.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

At 195 grt and powered by a two-cylinder simple engine, she was used on local services on the Medway, though from 1901 she was based at Ramsgate during the summer season for excursion traffic.

As shipping lines tried to out-do one another, offering the very best of comfort combined with fast crossing times, transatlantic liners soon went from being sea- going first-class hotels to

Then less than two years later another oil tanker hit the bridge, to be followed by two floating cranes that inflicted more damage.

Six hundred years later, another invading army made Old Sarum its defensive home: the inner fortifications now contained a Norman castle and a cathedral.

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

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

We are approaching Chandler's Ford from Southampton along Bournemouth Road, altered from Southampton Road to avoid confusion with another road of that name.