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The Early English-style brick Christ Church in Fairfield Road was just 23 years old at the time of this photograph. On its 25th anniversary in 1901, a school was added.

Using Bath stone for the facings, the whole scheme was topped off with a series of splendid crescents offering superb views of the Gorge and surrounding countryside.

Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the 14th-century parish church was rebuilt between 1858 and 1860 at a cost of £15,000; some 14th-century roof timbers were salvaged and reused.

By the 1950s Lulworth had become one of the most popular day excursions on the south coast, with cars and coaches jamming its narrow lanes.

Snow dusts the shapely 3,053 ft summit of Skiddaw, the giant among the northern fells, and one of the first popular mountain climbs in the Lake District.

Cockermouth is situated where the River Cocker joins the River Derwent on its way to the Irish Sea at Workington.

Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

They were founded by John Penrose, a cloth merchant of the town (and mayor in 1620), in 1627.

The industrial landscape of Burslem was dominated by bottle kilns and slag heaps. At this time, the Staffordshire potteries were employing about 60,000 workers.

Looking downstream, below the narrow Essex Bridge, this iron bridge was a continuation of one over the canal, built to allow residents of Shugborough Hall access to the village by horse

This is a good view of the village and St Andrew's church. Note the pony and trap setting off for the road to Frome to the left of what is now a general store and post office.

The sign of the Unicorn inn on the left has a finely- carved sundial nearby, also with a unicorn below.

As well as smack-rigged river barges, Bideford was home to a number of polacca brigantines, the smallest British square-rigged merchant sailing vessels.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

His father Fred Tate played here; he who was also the landlord of the nearby Burrell Arms pub!

This is a charming photograph of the area outside the churchyard entrance.

The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Much of Banstead High Street was rebuilt during the 1920s with a series of shopping parades.

Many of the buildings remain, almost unchanged. The post office stands on the right, with a stamp machine on the wall outside.

Crackington Haven, six miles south of Bude, sits in a deep valley in the parish of St Gennys.

The new Old Neptune was a conversion of two cottages; at the time of this photograph it was a local brewer's Tomson & Wotton's house.

This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.

The newly built Woodnewton Infants School stands close to Rowlett Road, with the trees of Thoroughsale Woods in the background.