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The parish church of St Michael was built in 1878 on the site of an older chapel. Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years.

The interior is no less impressive. One of its outstanding features is the Marble Hall on the first floor, with its monolithic columns in Siena marble.

This view looks in the opposite direction to view C136050, downhill to the heart of the Dutch Quarter, past the former Angel Inn dating from about 1450 and now well cared for by a firm of solicitors

Osborne House was purchased by Queen Victoria in 1840, and it became something of a shrine to her beloved Prince Albert after his death.

This panoramic view over Ventnor gives an idea of the steepness of the town.

When this picture was taken in the Victorian era, Cowley was a large village gradually being swallowed up by the suburbs of Oxford.

This view of Tideswell is from the pinnacled Perpendicular tower of the parish church.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

Much of the architecture of this country town is Georgian, though there are a few older buildings.

Oswaldtwistle Moor, to the south of the town, is a love- ly unspoilt area of outstanding beauty. 'The 'twist', or meeting of rivers, where Oswald lives' is how the town gets its name.

Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township

The effect of the new bridge on housing nearby can be seen in this photograph.

On the front of the building is an old sundial, and on the side a carving of Benjamin Skutt, who was Mayor of Poole in 1727.

Perched above Llangollen, this ancient fortification, whose name translates roughly as 'castle of the fort of the crow', dates from the Iron Age; medieval fortifications were added later, possibly

Nikolaus Pevsner describes Welsh Row as 'the best street in Nantwich', and the variety of buildings we can see in this photograph goes a long way to explaining why.

A fair number of old cottages still line the earliest village streets around the church, but elsewhere any surviving cottage tends to be islanded in a sea of modernity.

Earlier residents of Shillingstone had taken part in the Clubmen's Rebellion, an attempt by local people to keep the warring factions of the English Civil War out of the area.

The sculptures represent the common sacrifice and suffering of the nation. They are the work of Mr F W Sargant, the sculptor brother of a former headmaster.

The basket of a grocery delivery cycle is prominent on the extreme left.

We are looking at Parliament Square from an upstairs window on the corner of Parliament Street abd Bridge Street during the First World War.

An evocative view of old Corringham, down on the flat land close to the Thames and now a close neighbour to the estates of Thurrock and the Thames-side oil storage depots.

The original house on Holme Island was built by John Fitchett of Warrington in 1832.

Here we see the terminus of the Swansea to Mumbles railway. The pier was essential for the recreation of Edwardian visitors to this part of the seaside.

The unusual name comes from the ship of Captain Philip Broke of Nacton, whose estate extended into Bucklesham.