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Many of the buildings in Southampton's historic High Street were destroyed during the Second World War, more than 30 years after this photograph was taken.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

The Town Hall with its round corner turret was designed by Liddell & Brown and built in 1907-08; the fire station in Lawson Street and the public baths were part of the same scheme.

This must be a very early photograph of the navigation, for the canal did not open until 1 January 1894. 36 miles long, and many years (and financial crises) under construction, it linked Manchester to

The Royalists had a verse about local lad and Parliamentary general, Thomas Harrison: 'Son of a witch, Mayest thou die in a ditch, With the butchers who back up thy quarrels, And art above ground, While

Beyond the industrial area are some of the most beautiful houses in Frome, which date from about 1700. Willow Vale House still retains its ivy.

Home of the famous 'Furry-Day', Helston was an important market centre for local produce.

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

The building to the left is the rear of the China Bowl, which fronts onto the market place near the main entrance to the church, where once the stocks and whipping post stood.

Drifut's, on the extreme left, is offering customers coloured sand shoes and baseball boots to augment its traditional old-style repair business.

Even then, the road shows signs of traffic congestion. Note the substantial old-fashioned telegraph poles and cables, a once-familiar sight on Britain's trunk roads.

The contrast between the two scenes is remarkable, chiefly because of the cars which now throng the road; the contrast with the scene today is even greater.

Crow Mill on the River Sence was recorded around the mid 12th century; we see it here in a picturesque meadowland setting.

Behind is the car park for the cars to come under the hammer, and the fully mechanised tuning, repairing, and testing service of Magna Motors.

Roofs fell in, walls collapsed through the weight of smothering ivy, and congregations declined. This neglect would not be tolerated in our own conservation-conscious age.

At the bottom is 'The House that Moved': this historic local building was in the path of a road scheme, and was carefully excavated and rolled some 400 yards to a new position.

As a town, Basingstoke has been growing since the early part of the 20th century, but in the last 40 years or so it has become the fastest growing town in Western Europe, its population increasing from

Many of the buildings in Southampton's historic High Street were destroyed during the Second World War, more than 30 years after this photograph was taken.

This small parish in the Berkeley Vale consists of isolated farms and cottages, including these quaint brick two- storey buildings with their thatched roofs and inclined dormer windows.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Another well-known multi-national dominates this view; the branch has been here since about 1930, though the left-hand extension is a post-War development on the site of the Cinema de Luxe, which burned

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Fashionable hotels soon lined the front, with villa residences and smart cottages being erected along the slopes of Sid Vale to cater for a dramatic increase in the resident population.

It was named after the prominent weathervane placed here early in the 19th century by Mrs Johnes, a local benefactor who spent a great deal of her own money on improving the growing town.