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By the time of this photograph Cromer had experienced a continuing building boom, which included new premises for fashionable stores such as Jarrold & Sons (left), who are still flourishing both in Cromer

This 1903 view looking south down the High Street is full of detail. It seems to have been taken one warm morning - note the open windows, and the summery dresses of the girls on the right.

The Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence, where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

By the beginning of the 17th century the centre of Glasgow had shifted south, to the foot of the High Street where it joined the Saltmarket.

Ye Olde Tobacco Shoppe (left) was the home of blacksmith Samuel Govier, who provided the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler with a back room for his studio.

After the Second World War the business moved to the High Street, and made the most of Epsom's connections with the riding world. They supplied Nightingalls, Dullers, and other trainers.

From the bridge it was once possible to see a windmill built on a high bluff of rock above the river.

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

Liptons the grocer's (left), a café from 1910 to the 1920s, is now Dixon's. Beside Liptons, the Pearl Assurance sign hides that of the Kings Head.

Harold George Howard Perhaps one of the most influential landowners in the 1920s was Harold George Howard.

Central areas of the city and old industrial districts are being repopulated. There could be as many as 5,000 new apartment homes in and around the city centre in the very near future.

When the Second World War broke out she was exempt from military service because she worked in a bank, taking the place of men who had enlisted.

of the dock.

Both Back Lane and the High Street were well supplied with inns: the Blue Bell, the White Hart, the Talbot, the Three Arrows, the Dolphin, the Rose.

Most of the best shops in Walsall are either in the town centre or situated on the edge; between them they pull in thousands of shoppers.

Many at the Admiralty still considered the new- fangled machine a shameful and un-British device.

During the 19th century the town centre had shifted westwards to the Bridge and Park Street.

They planned that the town would be a little way inland and separate from the dock area.

Close to the band stage and above the tree- covered cliffs are wide expanses of grass, ideal for picnics.

The route diverts briefly to the east side of the Quantocks to visit Dodington, a small and peaceful hamlet just north of the busy A39.

The spire, seen here from the back of the church, has been a landmark for mariners for centuries.

A few miles to the south of Goudhurst is Twissenden Manor, now a youth hostel. This half- timbered Wealden Hall House has a late 16th- century sandstone facade at the back.