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From this view it is obvious that the town occupies a ridge between the two rivers: the land drops to the Great Ouse (see the previous views) and to the Ouzel, as we see here - this view was

The limestone obelisk has a ball finial and is mounted on a square base.

Cardiff Docks were developed during the late 1830s by the 2nd Marquess of Bute, and were enlarged in the 1880s and again in the early 1900s.

Traffic on the London to Oxford Road was now becoming a serious problem, and the town got its first traffic lights in 1934 (at the Guildhall crossroads) and an urban speed limit in 1935.

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

Redevelopment in the 1970s has swept away many of the buildings on the west side of Crib Street.

Worthing, like a tide of building, washed east, west and north before and after the Second World War.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

On the west coast of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

The west tower was built in the 15th century as an addition to the 13th-century church. In the 16th-century nave roof there are six carved figures.

To the right of the cathedral can be seen something of the warehouses and wharves of the city docks.

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

Here the photographer looks west from the Town Hall, and we can see the extensive encroachment onto the market place. Its Royal charter was confirmed as long ago as 1227.

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.

Once this lock on the Aire and Calder Navigation opened at 10am on 20 July 1826, trade boomed between the North Sea port of Hull and the West Yorkshire industrial heartland.

The Leicester to Northampton road passes through Welford's High Street, parallel with the much more tranquil West Street.

At this time Warburton was a small village on the south bank of the Mersey, five miles west of Altrincham and twelve miles from Manchester.

Besides the vast acreage of excavated docks, there were numerous riverside wharfs, from the grandeur of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge to this rather less grand one near the west entrance to the Royal

West Wittering has some larger houses in residential areas that are ever expanding. The 11th-century church of St Peter and St Paul is heavily restored.

This view looks north along the High Street past the now 'improved' junction with West Lane.

Park Street 1892 North-west from Winsford we reach Exford, where the River Exe is but a stream.

Cheddar Gorge is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in south-west England.The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an

The tree on the right has since been replaced with cherry trees on either side of the west door.