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Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

Having opened in 1836, the Union (workhouse) offered a harsh regime until the abolition of the Poor Law in 1929. In 1948, St John's Hospital for the aged and infirm came on site.

This was the site of the ancient gateway into Nottingham from the west until 1743.

Brockenhurst is a railway junction well-known to travellers to Southampton, Bournemouth, Lymington and the Isle of Wight.

A tram travels along the main street of Parkstone nearly a century ago.

Weymouth owed its success to the patronage of George III.

A good introduction to Dorset would be to follow the course of the River Piddle from its source to the sea, passing through some delightful villages along the way.

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

Red Lion Square takes its name from the famous old inn on the left of this photograph.

At Furnace, a small town hugging the western shores of Loch Fyne, iron-smelting works were established in the early 19th century.

Early inhabitants of the High Street faced a range of fierce punishments if they transgressed the law, including flogging, mutilation and death by hanging.

By 1921 commerce has taken over, but few of the buildings shown survive today.

It is accessed via Reservoir Road, off Eastern Avenue. It now houses the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and affords massive views of the city and, of course, the cathedral.

Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.

Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

At the southern end of the Close is Harnham Gate, one of the three gates that served the cathedral; it is contemporary with the original 14th-century cathedral wall.

This view was taken from King's Square.The street was originally part of the Roman city's main road, or Via Principalis.

The Grosvenor Hotel, seen here on the right, used to house a famous piece of Victorian furniture, the Chevy Chase Sideboard.

It is an open octagon with pillars supporting the domed roof, which displays the arms of England, France and the two local Members of Parliament who donated it.

The Lancaster Banking Company on the right was a forerunner of the District Bank, which became part of the National Westminster.

Tom Moore lived at Sloperton Cottage, Westbrook for nearly 34 years whilst under the patronage of the Earl of Shelburne.

Most of the buildings were compulsorily purchased for demolition in 1968 for the widening of the A4.

Carmarthen stands on rising ground on the north side of the Towy. The site was occupied by the Roman settlement of Maridunum, meaning 'sea fort'.