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The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

Marking the end of an era, the Bull Inn at Swyre was one of the last roadhouses to be built in England in the 1930s, enabling Mrs Bessie Case to offer 'hotel accomodation' in time for Defence Area status

Looking west from the chalk hills east of the town, undeveloped to this day, Chesham nestles in the deep-cut valley of the River Chess.

The design of the building on the extreme left of the photograph is 'restrained Co-op' of the 1930s, not pictur- esque but solid and honest.

Here we see a simple, well-proportioned range of three-storey shops and flats of around 1890, with their fine sensitively-crafted pilastered fronts.

In 1891 a fire caused considerable damage to the fabric of the building, and the impression from the photograph is of a complete rebuilding soon after that date.

A sign of the times is here in the form of the AA box (right) with two AA patrol men going across the road for a quick one!

In the days of sail, vessels making their way up the Avon to Bristol had to contend with several problems: the current, the wind through the Gorge, and the serpentine course of the river itself.

OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition

Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles.

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

Part of the Warter Priory Estate, these cottages were extended upwards and thatched in the 1930s.

The abbey stands on the site of a Saxon nunnery set up by Domneva, and run by St Augustine's monks from Canterbury; it was destroyed in the ninth century by the invading Danes.

The photographer aroused plenty of curiosity as he pictured the structure also variously known as Cemetery Gate, Chertsey's Gate and Jasper's Gate.

There are two prominent buildings of quality in the village, firstly the 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and Langham Old Hall with its date stone of 1665 built into the

We are looking west along Market Street from the corner of Cable Road, a scene that has changed remarkably little, apart from a big increase in the volume of traffic, especially on sunny weekends and holiday

Abergavenny's origins lie in the Roman fort of Gobannium, established by the Romans to protect their road up the river Usk.

This view probably shows the fields and open ground at Lower Green, north of Ickleford and close to the Bedfordshire border.

There are 18th- and 19th-century houses, and a fine group of public buildings comprising the Town Hall of 1900, the Public Library of 1929, the Fire Station of 1911 and, at the junction with Church End

This view is looking westwards towards Symondsbury and Exeter along what was generally called the London Road, with a variety of hand-carts and a couple of girls failing to stay still for Frith`s

This is a fine example of Bridport`s eastern countryside, with the Dorset Downs falling away into the Marshwood Vale (far left) from the heights of Eggardon Hill and woods of Knowle Hill (left),

We are at the heart of the city centre, and this is now all pedestrianised. The Albany Hotel, dating from the late 1870s, was originally a Temperance establishment.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.