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Lansdowne House, the elegant building on the left, was home to local doctors for about 100 years. Jane Austen came with Miss Beckford of Chawton House to visit Dr Newnham here in 1811.

The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery. It was demolished in the late 1960s, and the site is now occupied by the Ladygate Shopping Centre.

Grandfather recalled the quack doctor of Chatburn who sold 'universal pills'; the doctor was drowned at the age of 80 as he tried to ford the river.

The Clock Tower, across the bridge, was built by a Doctor Roberts in 1893 on the site of the old County Gaol.The much older Infirmary beyond has since been converted to flats.

The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery. It was demolished in the late 1960s, and the site is now occupied by the Ladygate Shopping Centre.

On the left is the sign for the Dimsdale Arms, named after the 18th-century doctor who inoculated Russia's Catherine the Great against smallpox.

It was converted into a doctor's surgery in 1992.

Three of Elizabeth Tudor's most influential courtiers hailed from Newport: Dr Edes, her chaplain, Dr James, her doctor, and Thomas Fleming, who became Lord Chief Justice.

The Clock Tower, across the bridge, was built by a Doctor Roberts in 1893 on the site of the old County Gaol. The much older Infirmary beyond has since been converted to flats.

The Royal Medical Benevolent College was founded in 1855 to take care of doctors who had fallen on hard times, together with their widows and orphans.

The bust on the plinth in the foreground is of Creighton Hutchinson, a local doctor and benefactor, who died in 1927.

This is an interesting photograph, for the view has been unashamedly doctored by the Frith company in the past for the Christmas postcard market, to look like a seasonally snowy scene.

Just 14 years after this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman Doctor of Medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908

It has now been converted into flats and a doctor's surgery. We have reached the era of fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper and eaten possibly in the street or in Smart's Fried Fish Saloon (right).

The gardens, too, have been replaced by tarmac and a doctors' surgery.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor of medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908.

The now tiled boathouse on the right is today a doctor's surgery.

The village doctor once had his surgery at the Hall, though his patients disliked passing the graveyard whenever they visited him. Today, the ivy has really taken hold of the gate-piers.

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

The fountain (foreground) extols the benefits of drinking plenty of water: 'a pint three times a day is the surest way to keep the doctor away.'

At the end of the parade of shops on the right is the post office, and in the distance Broxmore, housing the doctor's surgery, stood on the site of the present Oakdene Parade.

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

The original cottage was 'gentrified' during the early 19th century and later, the local doctor added extensions, which he used as his waiting room and surgery.

The medicinal values of the waters around Malvern have been known to local people for centuries, and Doctor John Wall published a treatise on their efficacy in 1756.