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No longer a village, but a residential suburb of Wolverhampton, Penn spreads for miles along the dual carriageway we see here.

The elaborate Elizabethan structure in the centre, with tiers of multi-paned windows and a high gallery, was the renowned Mol's Coffee House, standing beside Cathedral Green.

In this delightful rural scene, thatched cottages, sheep dogs and a babe-in-arms conjure up images of an earlier, more peaceful age.

With only a small beach to boast of it never attracted hordes of holidaymakers. The 19th century church (right) is Holy Trinity.

Despite the fact that coastal silt deposits have left Wells Quay on a creek over a mile from the open sea, the port was still functioning for the export of locally grown grain in 1965.

Here, the excellent footpath on the west bank of the river can be seen.

This view of the bridge was taken from the west bank, nearest Bakewell. Towards the far bank, the river is full of mallards, all demanding a sandwich with menaces.

This brash and kitsch 1920s art deco building clearly intends to convey the impression of a temple of delights.

The building, which is mid 19th- century and stands on the site of the old Market Hall, faces away from the town's wide Market Place. A stone pillar remains as a relic of the old hall.

Are the village women, right, considering a visit to the Anchor pub for a glass of cider?

A decade after the Peel Institute was completed, the adjacent Market Hall was opened as the focus of the town's trade.

The Old Hall, or Manor House, at Whitwell bears the mullioned and transomed windows and steep gables typical of its Tudor ancestry.

Some of these magnificent leafy trees lining, and shading, this lane running alongside the parkland would probably have been mere saplings when Henry VIII and his successor Queen Elizabeth I hunted deer

In front of the Mitre Tavern stands this memorial to the 13 men of the village who fell in the Great War. Cottages here date from the mid 18th century.

A few miles west from Grimsby, the village of Laceby once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as possessing the two closest pubs – The Waterloo and The Nags Head.

This sign was set up in front of the Little Baddow Memorial Hall.

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

These two form part of the Cove, which was possibly a shrine, in the northern inner circle of the Avebury henge.

Between the two are the hairdresser's shop of E Phillips and the tailor's shop of William Hewison.

The Ministry of Works built the post office of Portland Stone in 1927 in a restrained Baroque style.

Little has changed in the 40 years since photograph 69130 was taken, although there is a strong hint of things to come with the slow intrusion of the motor car.

The Mount is still largely undeveloped today, its tree-clad slopes rising to the south west of the town.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kenilworth was a small town with about 4,500 inhabitants.