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Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times, owing much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.

This photograph captures the Edwardian gaiety of the Thames at Boulters Lock, a particularly fashionable spot; here dozens of smart cruisers, punts and small craft parade before an admiring audience.

Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left. In front of them stands the fine war memorial.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

The Cooper's Arms, just after the turn of the 20th century; McMullens advertise their 'fine ales and invigorating stout'. The road surface shows signs of cobbling from an earlier age.

The number of parked cars is perhaps an indication of the traffic problems to come in later years.

The busy port on the River Liffey, showing several steamers with smoking funnels waiting to depart and, on the right, a forest of masts of sailing ships.

Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived.

This well-preserved stone (now in the care of the National Trust) is inscribed in Latin 'Carataci Nepus', that is, 'nephew of Caradoc'.

Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.

The English poet laureate Ben Jonson stayed here from December 1618 until the middle of January 1619 as a guest of William Drummond.

Situated 4.5 miles south of Birmingham, Bournville was chosen by George Cadbury in 1879 as the site for his new factory and for a model village for his workers.

With the exception of one of the pavilions (which was to enjoy a second lease of life as a clubhouse for a golf club) and the stable block, the building was demolished c1930.

This was the scene of the Rebecca Riots in the 19th century, when local farmers and workers, protesting against the high level of tolls, disguised themselves in women's clothing and tore down the tollgates

The park occupies the original site of Manningham Hall, which was demolished; the land was given to the city by its owner, Samuel Cunliffe Lister.

It was a popular place for holidays, even though the village had been spoiled not only by the ruins of an alum works, but by an iron bridge that carried the railway line between Whitby and Saltburn.

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years after it reached Cromer, Sheringham's close neighbour.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

This pleasant stone-built market town, on the western side of the lovely vale of Clwyd, climbs the hillside crowned by its ruinous castle.

This view shows the commercial centre of Pothmadog, with pleasing old Victorian shopfronts to the right.

This historic city is dominated by its famous cathedral, and has since Saxon days been the spiritual capital of England.

The harbour was developed by the railway companies - wagons of the London Midland Scottish Line are drawn up at the quayside.

The year 1892 saw the opening of the Albert Edward Dock Basin: here we see that dock just a year later. The success of the docks can be measured by the large number of ships tied up there.

On the east side of Market Square was the Bull's Head Hotel, a mostly late 18th-century building which was Tudorised by Giacomo Gargini in the 1920s.