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Mercifully, some might say, it burned down in 1926. A new Memorial Theatre opened in 1932, incorporating surviving parts of its predecessor. It was renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961.

The view is from Lockyers School looking down Blandford Road North.

Behind her is a small steam tug which was making ready to tow several barges down the Trent to Nottingham. The steamer in the background is the locally-built (1896) and registered 'Dido'.

The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof. The first car on the right is a 1956 Ford E83W Utility.

The village of Emery Down is reached by turning right at Swan Green after leaving Lyndhurst on the A35 Bournemouth road.

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance.

Down the street the King's Head has closed, but retains its Lacon's sign on the wall. Set back is the Vine Church, a Baptist Chapel rebuilt in 1868.

On the right is a tent and small wind shelters, while further along is a solitary bathing machine, which appears never to have been moved down to the sea.

For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

The church of St Mary was burnt down in 1914 and rebuilt by W Fellowes Prynne. What remained of the old building was the brick west tower dating back to around 1635.

During the Protectorate in the 17th century, the cathedral was in danger of being pulled down.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this photograph, which was taken looking towards the 2,403ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

Now all of that has changed, and so has Bridge Street, for it has virtually all been knocked down for redevelopment. On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr Price

Originally, Grove Street was the turnpike road to Manchester, and there was a toll bar at this junction, a great annoyance to Wilmslow people who objected to having to pay to go down their

One would not now dream of walking down the centre of this road. The line of the paling on the left marked the boundary of the old Borough of Petersfield.

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

Further down, on the pavement, is the town`s pump.

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.