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It is an apparently exclusively male-dominated scene in this narrow thoroughfare just off the High Street, with the overhanging upper storeys of the George Inn partially concealing the gaping gateway

Castle Combe was originally the site of a Roman villa; the Normans built a castle here, and for centuries the village was a centre for cloth weaving.

This little hamlet lies on the River Llugwy, at the foot of Snowdon.

Crickhowell Castle lies 12 miles south-east of Brecon. The original stronghold was a timber motte and bailey, and belonged to the de Turberville family.

Ship building and repairing gave work to many, and Swansea came sixth in the list of British ship-owning ports. John Vivian opened the first of his copper smelting furnaces at Hafod, Swansea in 1810.

A major restoration in 1960 revealed beautifully-coloured portraits of apostles and saints. The font and lectern are both noteworthy, and a mediaeval antiphoner in superb condition is on display.

The church is a curious mix of greenstone and limestone giving a patchwork quilt effect, while the chancel is in brick.

The reason for the name is that the front part of the inn is the new part - it was added onto the existing part in the 18th century.

The last survivors of the colony were burnt or massacred in the Temple of Claudius.

Henbury was not a parish until 1845; before then it was part of Prestbury, so St Thomas` Church and its parsonage date from this time.

Only small changes in 70 years, the Railway Hotel at the far end of the street is now the Whistle Stop.

It was considered a magical stone where barren women would press their breast against the stone in hope of a child!

This well-known inn is situated in a peaceful corner of the New Forest, close to Cadnam.

By the time this photograph was taken, the buildings either side of Bargate had been demolished to allow traffic to pass freely round each side of it.

During Ethelred the Unready's reign, Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire became what was in effect an independent land, ruled by the Earls of Mercia, free from royal control.

All kinds of shipments left for destinations all over the world, with cargoes from copper ore and coal to potatoes and onions.

Being on the far side of the Lancaster Canal from the centre, the school was considered to be out in the country, and the air was good for the boys.

This is one of Lancaster's main shopping streets. Note the radio shop on the right—in country districts, the radio, with its BBC Home and Light programmes, helped people to keep in touch.

Here locals could spend their money on furniture, boots and shoes, children's clothes, and ladies' and gents' outfitting. This picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns.

This interior view of the church shows the 15th- century nave arcades and chancel arch; the ghost of the original roof line can be seen high above the chancel arch.

A mile south of Nutfield, a new village grew up around the railway station on the Tonbridge line named South Nutfield.

The summer exodus of holidaymakers to the seaside resorts of Britain made piers a popular and lucrative venture. This Victoria Pier has had a chequered history.

There was no official place of worship for Catholics until the 1730s, and even then it was only created out of necessity.

By the banks of the Dee. Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.