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We are now right on the border - part of the inn is in Hampshire. The name of the inn comes from two stagecoaches, 'The Fly' and 'The Bull', which plied the road.

From the evidence of these ornate High Victorian villas, with their William Butterfield-style Gothic architecture phasing into more Italianate styles in the distance, Frome's economy successfully

Only the post office is still here, and it too is under threat of closure.

Beer remains a fishing village, if not quite on the scale of yesteryear, and there are still a number of family-owned boats.

Luton had experienced modernization in local government, with the Board of Health taking over key responsibilities involving water supply, care of the poor and the establishment of a regular

Virginia creeper has now spread to every inch of stonework on the 18th- century house (centre right).

Prestatyn's station on the Chester and Holyhead section of the L & NWR meant that it became increasingly popular with holidaymakers, especially with those from the Liverpool area.

Today's visitors can repair to the bar in the basement of the hotel, which occupies part of the west range of the abbey.

Situated six miles northwest of Barnard Castle, the village takes its name from St Romald, the son of a Northumbrian king; he was born in Buckingham in about 800, his mother having taken refuge there during

The British School of 1859, demolished in the late 1960s, was much like the National School, now Andover Primary School (C of E Controlled) which still thrives today in lower East Street.

Well-dressed 'promenaders' stroll along the parade, while in the foreground a troupe of minstrels entertain a crowd of holidaymakers.

This is an archive photograph all right: few of these buildings remain, partly as a result of the tragic floods of 1953 when the sea burst through the sea walls.

Trams first trundled down Cheltenham's streets on 22 August 1901. By the end of the 1920s they had been rendered redundant by the quicker, go-anywhere buses, and the trams were withdrawn in 1930.

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.