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St Mary's contains a particularly fine group of sculptures, and is renowned for its collection of monumental brasses.

Hitchin Street formed part of the complex of parallel trackways which made up the Icknield Way.

In 1752 William Vick had left some money towards the eventual bridging of the Gorge. It was not until 1829, however, that a competition for a bridge was advertised.

The boathouse on the left was built in 1903. When this photograph was taken, the Reliance Motor Engineering and Yachting Co Ltd occupied the left-hand half of the building.

Here we see the castle after its restoration by the Marquis of Bute. The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

The village pump was possibly introduced to improve water quality after the typhoid epidemics of the late 19th century. We can just see the bright water of the pond.

One stop short of the terminus at Cockfosters, Oakwood Station is one of the jewels along this northern stretch of the Piccadilly line, which also includes Southgate, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.

In the distance, the tower of St Paul's church peers above the roof of the Globe Hotel. Nearby is the Perse School, established in 1625, and moved here from Free School Lane in 1890.

The open-air bathing pool was a new attraction, opened in time for the long hot summer of 1914.

Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

This photograph shows the centre of the busy High Street, with the road to Bexley and London ahead and the turning to Crayford visible on the right.

Covered in ivy, the imposing and ancient structure of Norton parish church stands above the Green in a peaceful churchyard. Dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, the building has Saxon origins.

A summer picture showing an image that characterises Bedford in the middle of the 20th century as bridge, river and church link under a summer sky.

Inverary is set picturesquely on the shores of Loch Fyne, where it meets Loch Shira.

Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.

Around the beginning of the 20th century there was little difference in the cost of accommodation at either the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, or the Royal, though eating at the latter was slightly more

This is a grand view of the River Usk, which winds its way through Caerleon.

We are looking towards Roys of Wroxham (on the Hoveton side of the bridge). The wooden building on the right has been demolished, but others remain.

East of the High Street and parallel to it, Silver Street leads us out of the market place. On the left next to 'Phipps' is 'The Rising Sun', a Jacobean styled extravaganza of 1892.

Wollaston is a small market town with a charter granted in 1260 and with the remains of a motte and bailey castle.

The church was given by William the Conqueror to the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen, who administered it until 1415; it was then in the care of the nuns of Syon Abbey until the Dissolution.

Hulley's, a local coach firm, have one of their vehicles parked on the bus stand. Their stage carriage service reached - and still does - some of the more remote villages in the area.

This is another nostalgic picture of steam in the Peak District. It has gone now: but for how long?

George Lynn advertises his wares with considerable vigour on the south side of the triangular square, originally called Cross Bank.