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There were 30 fishing boats here in the middle of the 19th century, but by the end of the First World War they were nearly all gone.

This view shows Trent Bridge with the Ossington on the left, the castle on the right and the spire of St Mary Magdalen in the background. One interesting fact about St Mary's is that the 252?

The Cathedral 1911 The west door of Winchester Cathedral - one of the city’s most famous views. Inside is the stunning 12th-century black marble font from Tournai in Belgium.

The early neighbourhoods were characterised by winding streets and plenty of open space. Some of the plans won awards.

Apart from the lack of traffic, remarkably little has changed since this photograph was taken.

The River Brett curves around the farmhouse, now at the blocked end of the village street nearest to Monks Eleigh.

The population of six thousand at the beginning of the 20th century had all the variety of shops necessary for a thriving independent community.

Traffic comes to a standstill for this large flock of sheep being driven along the main road.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

The building of the M4 created vast numbers of jobs, and the road continues to sustain those that remain working in local industry.

An exhibition of fine art was held in the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital in 1866.

This photograph must have been taken at the height of the holiday season because the shop on the right, M A Grinnall's, has a number of beach balls and inflatable air beds on display outside.

Eanulf, grandfather of King Offa of Mercia, founded a monastery at Bredon, though nothing of it is to be seen.

Weymouth's Nothe Gardens are beautifully situated on a headland overlooking the Isle of Portland and are the site of Nothe Fort, built to guard the huge naval harbour between the mainland and the Isle.At

The wheelwright in Old Colwyn was always busy making and repairing wheels and carts, as an inspection of the picture reveals.

Watergate Street is said to contain three of the finest examples of half-timber buildings still standing.

St Hilary's is one of only eight churches in the country dedicated to the saint. The lone tower dates back to the rebuilding of the 1530s, the rest of the church having been demolished in 1760.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor- style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

A soldier stands to the right of the gate. The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp.

A view of the south porch. St Andrew's Church was built in the latter part of the 15th century of oolitic limestone in the Perpendicular style.

He was later to die in 1712 as a result of a duel with the Duke of Hamilton.

In 1911 Reading formally absorbed much of Tilehurst, which had already in effect become a suburb of the town.

Previously a journey from London to Portsmouth entailed one of two options: to go to Croydon and then to Brighton, with a change there onto the South Coast line to Chichester and Portsmouth, or

The statue of Queen Victoria graced the square from May 1904. A crowd of 70,000 cheered the Prince and Princess of Wales, who were also here to open the Bradford Exhibition at Lister Park.