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Even into the third decade of the 20th century, the blacksmith's role in rural life remained important.

Further north along Gateford Road, near the Gladstone Street turn, the spire of St John the Evangelist's can be seen on the right behind the tall three-storey terrace of 1870s shops.

Housing has not yet developed out into the fields where tall elm trees break up the line of the hedgerow on the right.

For hundreds of years, the nearness of Purbeck to the coast of France meant that smuggling was a major industry; smuggled goods would often be hidden in the caves and quarries of the Isle.

This hybrid of a survival reveals in its stonework the continuing patchwork of alteration.

The course was built to designs by Hawtree & Taylor in 1924 on 99 acres of land, and the first games were being played by April the next year.

Dogs are at play in this photograph of a peaceful West Sussex village.

The foundation of Folkestone's prosperity during the 19th century, these packet boats conveying passengers across the Channel to the coast of France some twenty-six miles away transformed Folkestone

Within the short span of 40 years (AD1220-AD1260) the Cathedral was built uniquely in one Gothic style, Early English.

At this time boys were often in their teens before they got a pair of long trousers. Jeans were unheard of, and the design of children's clothes had hardly changed for thirty years.

In AD910 Tettenhall was the scene of one of the most important battles in English history. It was here that Edward the Elder of Wessex defeated the Danes. The battle marked a turning point.

Today Little Sutton has become a suburb of the much newer town of Ellesmere Port.

Along with Northwich and Nantwich, Middlewich is one of the three salt towns of Cheshire. It sits over the old Roman town of Salinae.

Peel Fold, situated on the slope of a hill a short distance away from the main road, was originally known as Oldham's Cross.

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with

The higher part of Kilburn village, including the parish church of St Mary (which we can see in the background, centre) clusters around its large village green.

The fountain and pond are situated at the front of the art gallery at the end of a ribbon of lawns and rose beds known as the Diamond.

Littleport is distinguished as being the last place on which the Bishop of Ely exercised his temporal powers.

The King's Head's three doorways can be seen, and the inn-signs of a carved bunch of grapes and a portrait of King Charles II.

Among the many old buildings in this stretch of the High Street is the Tudor brick Eastgate House, seen on the right, and now the Charles Dickens Centre.

Within easy distance of the railway station, the Royal Hotel served Ilkley's many visitors for nearly a century.

The 35ft statue of Queen Victoria, designed by the architect J S Gibson and the sculptor H C Fehr, dominated the centre of the new city square following its unveiling by the Prince of Wales on 12 May

The Collegiate Church built in 1851 was consecrated as the Episcopal Cathedral of Argyll and the Isles in 1876.

Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion.