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The Quay and the harbour were once separate from the rest of the town. The present harbour walls date from the middle of the 19th century; they are built on the site of previous medieval walls.

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

From this elevated view point we get the impression of what must have appeared a somewhat green street.

Queen Victoria commissioned George Gilbert Scott to create the highly decorated interior of this 15th century Chapel to commemorate her husband, Prince Albert, who died in 1861.

The ruins of the once luxurious state rooms at Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

This is the quadrangle of Owen's College, with the gateway out to Oxford Road on the right of the picture. In 1886-7 the Museum part of the college was among the buildings added to the complex.

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

In the backgound are the ruins of Bolton Castle, which was built by Richard Scrope in the 1380s.

Our third tour starts in Shalford, in effect a suburb of Guildford on the east side of the River Wey where the Tillingbourne meets it.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

This is the same scene as photograph No 37890 in the opposite direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

The town is most famous now for its annual international eisteddfod, one of the high spots of the cultural calendar in Wales.

Moving east we reach Coleshill, a mile south of Amersham.

Kilton Castle, seat of the de Thweng family, lies in the immediate neighbourhood. The population of Brotton grew from 330 in 1861 to 2672 in 1871 as a result of the discovery of local ironstone.

By the 1890s it was not just the hulls of merchant sailing ships that were being constructed of iron or steel; many also carried steel masts, spars and fittings.

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.