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Two splendid motor cars are in front of the Theatre Royal, but a horse-drawn vehicle is also in view.

Oakengates' most famous personality was the son of a local coal-miner.

Another view of Chideock Post Office (right), looking eastwards to Mervyn House, Staddlestones, and Rose Cottage (centre).

It provided a crossing of the Dee from the Watergate to nearby Curzon Park, as well as for traffic heading to and from the direction of Wrexham.

BBC and ITV aerials proliferate above the rooftops of Maltby.

BBC and ITV aerials proliferate above the rooftops of Maltby.

Here we are at the lower end of Kirkgate, all car-free today.

It is a mere 35 years on from picture 25945, but how things have changed: the age of the car has arrived, and telegraph poles now line the roadside.

Warfleet lies downstream from Dartmouth on a small creek, and in the mid 19th century it was the site of one of the earliest villas in town.

The village sign shown on the right of the photograph depicts a cuckoo, a rebus for Cuckfield, whilst the village stores (left) were a branch of Spar and also housed the local post office

A view of Datchet High Street from The Green.

Heavy bombing during the Second World War led to a redesign of the traffic flow and yet another rebuilding of the pub.

Completed in 1789, All Saints' survived in its original form for less than sixty years before it was remodelled and the west tower added.

This is a late-Victorian development just off the seafront; the castellated roof of the Falcon's Nest Hotel can be seen rising above the terrace.

Lombe had worked as a silk weaver in Italy where he secretly made drawings of the machinery. He returned to England and opened his factory.

Pike 'o' Stickle (2,323 ft) is the thimble-shaped peak prominent on the skyline in this view taken from near the head of Great Langdale.

Netley Hospital, which opened in 1868, was a quarter of a mile long and cost more than £300,000 to construct.

Here we see one of the many pleasure steamers that used to ply on the river Severn in the Worcester area.

A major boating centre to this day, Braunston was the northern end of the Grand Junction canal. At this point it met the Oxford Canal; there used to be a small lock outside the house.

Since 1968, this village has been officially known as Hoo St Werburgh; it is named after a Saxon princess who became a nun, and who was buried on the site of the present church.

It was created from a raised area of ground where the river Yeo describes a large arc.

Following bomb damage in the 1940 air raid, the building was altered in 1956; its outward appearance took on an Elizabethan style in contrast to this austere Gothic design.

Telegrams were still a popular form of communication, but they were on their way out: for many people, they had always had a macabre association - having been bringers, frequently, of bad news during

The castle had two main towers and a further tower guarding the entrance on the north side. There was no keep.