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Today, the chapel, with its distinctive green dome, is all that remains of the old Royal Victoria Military Hospital, opened in 1868 and demolished in 1966.

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town.

It was refurbished in 1987-88, so that today the foreground of this scene is occupied by a coffee bar, a traditional-style fountain and several plane trees.

The village of Slad sits in one of the loveliest valleys in Gloucestershire.

The thatched Old Parsonage at the end of the road is late 15th-century. The exposed timbers have been plastered over. A group of children stand by a 19th-century cottage now called White Gates.

Tucked away at the mouth of the little River Wallington is Fareham - much busier around the 18th century than when this picture was taken.

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

This one, between Mounters and the parish church (centre right), looks almost suburban, with the dormer windows of fashionable semi-bungalows around Butts Close (right).

For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.

Each of these photographs takes the eye closer to the village centre with the railway now in clear view.

Dating from the early 18th century, it has unusual features, 'an undulating Edwardian parapet with 3 blind arches over plate glass sash windows' (The Department of Environment List of Buildings

It was designed by the Chippenham architect Walter Rudman, , gives details of the construction by Blackford & Son: the building used '3650 cart loads of stone …. 75000 tiles cover the roofs' and 'the

Packing the hillside of Happy Valley above Llandudno, holidaymakers and residents alike enjoyed the views of the activity below them beside the recently constructed Victoria Pier.

The centre was in use with temporary structures shortly after the war, but was formally built between 1950 and 1951 as a part of the Festival of Britain.

Much of this scene had not changed since before the war. The post office (near right) was run by F S Mowlam in the 1950s. Further on we see the gabled end of the White Hart Hotel.

Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fish- ing boats—it is still the age of the sail.

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

This quiet resort takes its name from the salterns or salt pans used by the monks from the nearby Otterton Priory.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the George and Dragon Hotel was a popular stopping-place for cyclists and walkers following the route of the Icknield Way.

Although earlier it had been a wagon-wash, the cleaning of horse-drawn vehicles was strictly prohibited, and railings were erected in 1915 to prevent access.

A 1930s Rover saloon is parked on the road. A trout stream flows through the water meadow here.

One of the finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle traces its history back to the Iron Age earthworks on the site.

The unique oast houses are basically kilns, or ovens, where the piles of hops were dried on sacking laid over wooden slats, and heated by fires of anthracite mixed with sulphur.

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters