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Corringham was a small, remote village before the coming of the oil-refineries: the petrol-station sign in the distance says it all. This parade was built in 1929.

Laindon church boasts one of Essex's famous timber belfries. The annexe to the left of the belfry is a 17th-century priest's house, which later became a school.

Little Sutton lies just north-west of Ellesmere Port, and in recent years, along with Great Sutton, it has more or less coalesced with it.

Rose Cottage, on the right, has had a small extension built to replace the lean-to shed. Opposite the cottages we can just see the sign of the Load of Mischief public house.

Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.

The church at the far end of the street is Wesley Memorial Church. Situated in New Inn Hall Street, it opened in October 1878.

Today the store operates as part of the Spar grocery chain, and the entrance has moved round to the left of the building.

This view of Ivy Cottage, which is offering accommodation, luncheon, tea and morning coffee and paintings by Arnold Denby, also shows the 'scars' of the limestone terracing which punctuate the surrounding

The church tower is that of St John the Baptist, which stands over one of the medieval gateways into the city.

Here, from the fields off Folly Lane, Stroud may be admired from a very different vantage point.

The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

The cinema (left) offers 'Easter Parade' with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, or a boxing match between Freddy Mills and Joe Woodcock.

It is hard to imagine a town with a population of 2,000 being short-listed for the Welsh capital when it consists essentially of two intersecting streets.

The age of the car has now arrived, with the front of a Wolseley 4/44 peeping out alongside a very new Ford Anglia.

Erected in 1895 as a memorial after the removal of an ancient burial ground, St Andrew's Cross was damaged the night before the church went up in flames and was subsequently removed.

On his return from his circumnavigation in 1580, Drake anchored in the lee of the island while he sent messen- gers ashore to check if Queen Elizabeth was still alive and, if so, whether he was still

Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.

The fortress, named Anderida, was built in the 4th century AD as one of the Saxon Shore Forts to defend Roman Britannia from Saxon raiders.

The monumental scale of St Leonard's church provides visual evidence of Seaford's medieval importance when the River Ouse actually reached the sea here, rather than at Newhaven as now.

The old 'birdcage' bandstand was replaced in 1934-35 by an altogether grander affair with a seating capacity of three thousand people.

Charming thatched cottages on Bourn's High Street. These days, Bourn is probably best known for Bourn Hall clinic, renowned the world over for its pioneering work with test-tube babies.

Built on the site of the 12th-century priory of the Holy Trinity, this marvellous Tudor country house almost became a housing estate in the late 19th century.

Notice the semi-circular oven protruding from the wall beside the chimney, a feature of many period cottages in the area. It was used to bake bread, then very much a staple of the diet.

Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn.