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Built as one of a series defending the English border from Welsh attack, the castle had already fallen into disrepair by the 1600s, when it was refortified during the Civil War.

The marshes were a popular haunt of wildfowlers seeking tasty birds and unusual specimens for the taxidermist. About 400 acres of this area were purchased by Dr Sydney Long in 1926.

The picnicking children in this scene would find the site less peaceful today, blighted as it is by incessant traffic noise.

A new Memorial Theatre opened in 1932, incorporating surviving parts of its predecessor. It was renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961.

It was decided to use a small recreation ground in Euclid Street, and building took place to a design by Messrs Bertram, Bertram & Rice of Oxford.

Since its official opening in Coronation year (1953) by Sir Noel Arkell, this area in the centre of the town has been known as Queens Park.

The view from Kingston Lacy House shows the wooded Badbury Rings on the horizon.

West Borough's town houses are mostly mid-to late-18th century, built when this part of Wimborne was first developed. Note the first-floor bay window on the right.

This lonely land was well protected by the Home Guard during the Second World War, when there was a great fear of invasion - just as there had been 150 years earlier during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte

This is largely because this area, being close to Llanelli, was sitting on a bed of pure anthracite coal, which stunted the growth of vegetation.

The pleasant sunshine seems to have forced the owner of the shop on the right to lower the blinds. However, the absence of any signboard would suggest that it was unoccupied.

Named after the founder of the steel works, this imposing brick building in Rockingham Road was constructed in 1937 to cater for the large number of schoolchildren coming into the town and to ease

A group of children pose for the photograph.

This row of 18th-century timber-framed cottages had a red brick façade added in c1820. The shop has now shut, and its frontage has been replaced to blend in with the rest.

Here we have a fine view of St Mary's Church from Church Street.

Founded in Saxon times, the church we see now largely dates from around the 14th century; a local legend says that when ivy grows to the top of the spire the end of the world will be nigh.

Situated on the B2150 between Waterlooville on the A3 and Droxford on the A32, it is only 20 minutes from Portsmouth and 30 minutes from Southampton. Today it has a population of over 6,000.

Rows of black cars line the sides of the road. Today there are estate agents, an optometrist and a surgery here; the surgery dates from 1937 when Dr Cheyne opened it in his Havant Road home.

Pilley is one of six hamlets making up Boldre in the New Forest. The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

Prominent on this main road was Rushton's poultry shop on the left. At Christmas especially, rows of pheasants, rabbits and hares hung here, along with other game, poultry and fish.

The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter.

Leading up Pier Avenue from the Marine Parade corner, the first pair of houses on the left, known as Clarence Villas, was built in 1874.

The orderly mooring of boats assists any single one to slip her lines and negotiate the harbour entrance without causing disturbance or damage to neighbouring craft.