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Marden lies nine miles south of Maidstone. In this quintessential village scene, we see the village bobby standing next to the red telephone box, with a café selling ice creams behind.

This view looks back towards the site of photograph No 77098.

The original tower was probably the first part of the castle to be built of stone, though its internal buildings were still wooden.

On the left, two uniformed schoolboys, probably from either Sutton Grammar or Sutton High School, are about to pass the hedge in front of Cheam Hall as they make their way towards the main junction.

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

The roof of the former vicarage can be seen between the pub and the bus shelter of c1953. On the left is the garden of Thomas Neale's almshouses of 1723, demolished in 1968.

For all its evocative name, Higher Bebington Road is quite short in length; it services Bebington High Sports College, the Higher Bebington recreation ground and the local branch of Wirral

This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders

This photograph was taken about five years after R353020 (pages 62-63) and further down the hill towards the centre of Rockingham.

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Hidden behind the trees is the parish church of St Michael and All Saints; burial place of Bernard Gilpin (died 1583), cleric, orator, philanthropist, and founder of Houghton Grammar School.

Taken long before the days of amusement arcades and the bandstand, this photograph shows that Pier Road and the Crag consisted solely of dwelling houses, probably occupied mainly by the fishing community

This view of Worcester Cathedral was taken looking west along the length of the quire and nave to the great west window.

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

Castell Coch has featured in a number of films, both for screen and television.

Chesham has been a market town since 1257 when Hugh, Earl of Oxford, obtained from King Henry III a grant of a weekly market and annual three-day fair.

A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church.

Here we see the river bridges and Nag's Head island, which separates the main river on the right and the back water on its left.

County Hall was built in 1882 and was the administrative headquarters of Lancashire County Council.

Kirby's Hotel was at the other end of the Royal Hotel, beyond that we can just see South Terrace.

Many souvenirs and postcards of the late 19th and early 20th centuries bear the legend 'the abbey'.

It was at Brampton that John Pepys, father of Samuel Pepys the diarist, inherited a large property worth about £80 per year.

This peaceful view of Minster shows its pleasant old houses. Minster has the dubious claim to fame of being the site of the world's first fatal motor-car accident.