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Another view of the centre of the village, showing the Old Hall Hotel on the right and the raised, walled churchyard on the left.

Behind the 'No Waiting' sign outside Clark's drapery shop (left), we can glimpse the attractive double curved windows of North's, the chemist.

The classical-style building on the left is the Midland Bank, claimed by many to be one of the town's finest build- ings.

The witty monarch remarked that one was good for her soul, another for her body and the third for her goods.

The pier was another Birch-designed affair, his only one in Wales. It opened in 1865, and gained itself a pavilion in 1896.

In these views you can clearly see another weir just beyond the bridge.

Cirencester is another Cotswold town best explored on foot, not least since traffic has increased substantially since this photograph was taken over a century ago.

Another view that clearly shows the 1883 promenade and sea wall. Before this was built, the beach stretched much further inland and sand dunes often formed as far as Regent Street.

Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

Both privately owned, they later sold out to a major brewery that joined them together in May 1989.

This delightful mill is to be found on the River Blackwater. Few can pass over the hump-backed bridge without pausing to get a better view.

There is a wonderful mixture of timber-framed, Georgian and Victorian buildings here, which line both sides of the road.

This gently curving street is to the east of the town. This view, looking back towards the town centre, shows both the Congregational and parish churches.

A mother is attending to two youngsters, while another child crosses from the boat to the dinghy, a potentially hazardous leap. That was 1965: today the wearing of a lifejacket would be automatic.

Not far distant from the Slaughters are the little villages of Lower and Upper Swell, both situated in an entrancing rural landscape along the banks of the River Dikler.

There are no traffic lights here yet - it was to be another ten years before they appeared. Life was simpler for learner drivers then.

The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

The western side was then demolished and rebuilt, but it was another seven years before the eastern side was pulled down to give the road the width which exists today.

Here we see another peaceful scene taken at the same time as photograph 70592. The boat is a disused butty, and makes a fine perch for the anglers.

At Darlington his shoes gave out, and he had to buy another pair. He later told Drummond that they took some breaking in and left his feet sore and blistered for several days.

Both man and animal traps were supplied to the landed gentry, and man traps also went to the slave owners in the plantations.

This unusual bridge was both the first road swing bridge on floating pontoons in Britain (it was built in 1899) and then the first electrically operated swing bridge (in 1989).

This impressive castle, again ordered by Edward I, was begun in 1283 and constructed on the site of the former Welsh stronghold of Dafydd ap Gryffudd.

Meetings of another sort take place behind the hall, where there is also a bowling green.