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Henry II's great keep stands high above the mural towers of the inner bailey. Henry and his son Richard I transformed Dover into one of the greatest fortresses of the kingdom.

In 1042 Edward the Confessor granted the manor of Littleham to his thane Ordgar.

Since the completion of the railway, great improvements have been made here, one of the most important being the construction of Victoria Terrace, by which means the Marine Terrace has been completed.

This wonderfully constructed lych gate looks as if it will last for ever. It is oak built and stands in the shade of an ancient yew tree.

Stourport grew around the former village of Little Mitton by a stroke of fortune.

Here we see an image of disappearing Britain: the village pond, many of which have been removed since the time of this photograph, with a backdrop of cottages.

The former seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, Worsley Old Hall dates from the 16th century. It was here that James Brindley lived while working on the Bridgewater Canal.

In Anglo-Saxon times a church dedicated to St Werburgh stood on part of the site now occupied by the cathedral. St Werburgh was a daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia.

The village stands at the foot of the Hog's Back close to Aldershot, but it is actually in the parish of Guildford.

The gabled row of houses leads towards a railway bridge with St Andrew`s Church beyond.

Renowned as one of the finest parks in the north of England, Queens Park was given to the town by the London and North Western Railway Company to commemorate fifty years of the railway in the town.

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as the result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

The Cross, the junction of the High Street, Cambridge Street, Huntingdon Street and Church Street, marks the original site of the centre of town, and was a planned medieval market place.

This was in the early phase of its transformation, mainly by the medium of brick.

A closer view of the group in the previous photograph reveals them relaxing on the slipway.

Fontmell Magna's church has a sad memorial to a victim of one of the greatest tragedies of the last century.

Hugh Lupus, the first of the Norman earls of Chester, is said to have ordered the construction of a weir so that the mills would have a regular source of water power.

A pair of ladies in fashionable Edwardian costume stroll along the raised pavement of Rowcroft on their way to the shops of King Street. A little ahead of them is a gas lamp standard.

A couple of old villagers pass the time of day with a youngster in the West Cumbrian village of Gosforth.

Between 1873 and 1879 a new Church was built to serve the parish of Heene.

HAVING traced the big changes that led to today's modern town of 165,000 with its own suburbs and rush hour to match, it is now time to look towards tomorrow.

With the council's eventual acquisition of the pier in 1924 their financial commitment to it and to the development of the Esplanade would be huge, and spread over decades of work.

After the dissolution of Fountains Abbey, the land was eventually purchased by John Aislaby. He landscaped the fields and created the two lakes and the formal water gardens.

Prior to the opening of the railways, considerable quantities of goods for Norwich and the villages along the way were sent up- river from Great Yarmouth.