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Of the shops on the right, the Midland Bank is now, of course, HSBC.

This view from St Mary's tower has Monk Street in the foreground. Centre left is the Bethany Baptist Church, which opened in 1827 when 30 members left the Frogmore Street Church.

Just on the left of the picture is the entrance to Lewis's Department Store, the first large-scale retail outlet in Manchester.

By the 1960s, more and more holiday visitors were arriving by car as well as by rail.

Designed by Henry Edward Kendall in 1839, and situated to the west of Cockfosters Underground station, this stock brick church was financed by the Bevan family who owned Trent Park, and whose origins were

This view from St Mary's tower has Monk Street in the foreground. Centre left is the Bethany Baptist Church, which opened in 1827 when 30 members left the Frogmore Street Church.

The small Norman church at Great Amwell stands close to the New River and contains a memorial to Robert Mylne, one of the engineers to the New River Company.

Recent restoration has beautified St John's, the parish church, which has long played an important role in the Fylde. It was the only church before 1840.

Sykes Farm is typical of the isolated farms in this area. Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.

Farther down the A330 is Stud Green, a hamlet of Holyport. Its character is now largely suburban, following much rebuilding. This view looks west.

The Exeter Ship Canal, five miles long, reaches the sea at Topsham, and was built in 1564-6 after the building of a bridge at Countess Wear stopped the use of the river for trade.

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

This view is from an upper balcony of Eldon House, one of the eleven-storey blocks of council flats built c1960 on the Loughborough Estate.

From the elevated position of St Andrew's Church we look down the Aire Valley, where now a dual carriageway leads into Keighley.

The war memorial is centrally placed in the village alongside the winding street by the stream. The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

Eastleigh Library, built in 1936, provided a welcome addition for the people of Eastleigh. It was well stocked with books, and soon became too small for the needs of the population.

In 1885 the Marine & General Company purchased land here, and began building Frinton Haven, which was to have a market, a pier, a tidal basin, and pleasure gardens.

St Teresa's Convent was established in Effinghamhill House, a stucco early 19th- century mansion in the chalk hills two miles south of Effingham village.

Victorians promenade on the newly-opened second Swanage pier.

Battlemented parapets of the 15th-century nave and porch of St Giles Parish Church are seen here on the corner with North Road (left).

The national government also developed local offices.

Then, it was a bustling port with barges moored two or three deep unloading timber and barley. A few more years earlier, there would have been the occasional sailing barge with huge brown sails.

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the