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Outside the hall, Nicholas Sotherton's traceried bay window is flanked by Francis Cock's staircase bay of a century later. Both were added to a 15th-century structure.

The last Scottish national parliament was held here in 1646.Oliver Cromwell lived at the palace for several months following the Battle of Dunbar in September 1650.

It was the home of the Rt Hon Harbord Harbord, who was created Lord Suffield in 1786.

The Grand has recently undergone a complete refurbishment and modernization, so this photograph reveals a little of its former tarnished glory following its heyday in the 1930s.

This is a charming view of various sailing vessels and their masters. The railway tracks and trucks can be seen above the harbour wall, behind the boats.

This is the first beach around the corner from the main breakwater of Par Harbour. Steps cut into the rock lead down the cliff from Spit Point.

The village of half-timbered and weatherboarded buildings clusters around the green, known locally as 'the Heath', but the village church itself is nearly two miles away.

Hardy Tobacconists are now Caburn secondhand books, while the buildings on the left - now divested of hung tiles - are the secondhand and antiquarian booksellers Bow Windows Bookshop.

In this typical scene, a wherry sails past a disused early 19th-century drainage windmill, typical of the 200 that once turned to keep the marshes drained.

On the left is the Queen's Head Hotel; beyond that is the Chesterfield & District Co-operative Society. Directly ahead is the town branch of Barclays Bank.

Away from the livestock, on the other side of the recently erected war memorial, stalls sell everything from clothing and locally-grown produce to tractors and harrows.

Situated on the navigable Ribble, Preston Docks opened in 1892.

We look north-westwards at low tide to the cuboid shape of Sundial Cottage, and Library Cottage, which incorporates exotic but re-set older lead-work from France.

The name Duke Street was a smartening-up of the original name, Duck Street. The houses on the left-hand side had been rebuilt further back for road widening in 1870.

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

The old part of the town is mainly late Victorian, although it expanded rapidly after World War II as an overspill for London.

Two men, a young child and a dog outside the Half Moon Inn provide the only sign of life in the village centre.

Bidford became famous in 1922 when a Saxon burial ground was discovered containing 200 graves, including those of warriors buried with their weapons.

The children's zoo was definitely a hands-on place. Here children get up close to all manner of small, and usually friendly, animals.

The shops were once the outbuildings of the Swan Yard.

Sutton is 4 miles north east of Biggleswade. This Ford is spanned by a 14th-century packhorse bridge classified as an ancient monument.

Langford's tents have now taken the place of Dendy's bathing machines. Opposite is Redcliffe Lodge, and between the trees is Dendy's Parkfield House.

A further example of the Victorians restoring and re-erecting an old Celtic cross, perhaps inventing a suitable fanciful nickname for it too!

Every now and again, the Brothers gather in the mid 14th-century Brethren's Hall for a feast of celebration called the Gaudy Lunch.