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The houses on the left are extremely old. The Monkey Puzzle tree is a symbol of good luck and a sign of wealth.

The collier 'Similarity' was something of a fixture, making 257 visits to Kingswear before the advent of natural gas killed the trade.

The front of the chapel has been redeveloped; it now stands back from the road and provides pleasant housing.

Over the years there have been several businesses with premises near the station - W Ivey, brick making and farming, Charles Archer, coals, John Hutchins, builder, Dukes, sellers of dairy cake and chicken

Leland the traveller recorded that only one tower and a little stonework from the castle remained at the time of his visit.

The settlement was once the centre of a local iron-working industry, and the white-painted Gun Inn with its swinging signboard was where John Browne, the local ironmaster, designed ordnance for the navies

In the centre of the photograph we can see the 64ft, red brick lighthouse on the Brush Wharf, built at a cost of £400.

On the right is the truly remarkable red-brick tower of St Nicholas church, built in 1735 by Lord Petre of nearby Thorndon Hall.

On the right-hand corner with Dalton Road is Saxone Shoes, now Thomas Cook.

This dramatic rock formation lies just south of Whitby, on the Cleveland way, along the old railway track.

A rustic scene in the centre of the village, southwards along Duck Street, with the Swiss Cottage contributing its flamboyantly flowing thatch (left).

In the grounds of Greyfriars are the Bank Lane arches. Previously, this part of Greyfriars had been used to house cattle and other farm animals awaiting market.

The town is also a very fine one, with much of its medieval street plan intact. Indeed, many of the Georgian and 19th-century facades in the town conceal medieval timber-framed buildings.

This scene is timeless, except for the lack of traffic!

Penrice castle stands on the site of an earthwork and timber fortification; the present structure was built over a period of some fifty years, with work beginning in c1250.

Alderholt is a pleasant place to visit, surrounded as it is by the woods and heaths of the old hunting ground of Cranborne Chase. An ancient chapel once stood here, used by huntsman in Stuart times.

During the last half of the 20th century the beach at Charmouth became a mecca for the fossil hunter.

As car ownership increased, visitors to places like Lulworth Cove were in danger of destroying the very beauty they came to admire.

The castle dominates the old town, originally founded by the Romans who built the first castle - one of their chain of forts along the Saxon shore.

The international aspect of the town's trade can be seen by the sign outside Joseph Hird's grocery in the centre of the picture. It advertises him as a 'French and Italian Warehouseman'.

The Hoad Hill Monument at Ulverston is a replica of the Eddystone Lighthouse, and was built as a memorial to Sir John Barrow, founder of the Royal Geographical Society and for 40 years Secretary to the

Three-storied 18th-century town houses, including the bow-windowed front of the Sykes Temperance Hotel, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

The White Hart Inn at Wadworth, south of Doncaster, was once an important stopping place on the old Great North Road.

Situated to the west of Wolsingham on the A689, Frosterley used to be called Forest Lea.