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Grey Friars Café (left) was built in 1889 as Cocoa Rooms by the Countess of Zetland, a staunch advocate of temperance.

The monument, topped by a finial (right), marks the centre, and records the death in 1729 of William Sparrow, the creator of the maze.

This seemingly unusual gift was made because of Burnley's associations with the Crimean War.

The road south from Braemar climbs through Glen Clunie and then over the rugged Cairnwell Pass, the highest point on a main road in Britain, and now the main A93 between Aberdeenshire and Perthshire.

The great architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner waxed lyrical about the quality of Dudley's animal accommodation in his volume on Staffordshire, published in 1974.

Ryde is the Isle of Wight's largest holiday resort.

A few buildings have been demolished, there are some new additions, and only the remnants remain of the loading crane on the right.

The early structure fought a valiant battle against the worst of the channel storms, but managed to survive.

The outer breakwaters at Portland extend over two miles, making it one of the largest man- made harbours in the United Kingdom.

Smartly-dressed holidaymakers are wandering up the slope from the Promenade, perhaps to take a genteel cup of tea at the Royal Hotel. Its elegant balconies will ensure airy views of the sea.

Many a vessel has come to grief while trying to round the head to the safe harbour of Bridlington.

When the village relied almost entirely on fishing for a living, it would be the women who baited the lines, usually with mussels, or sometimes limpets.

This corner of Fairhaven Lake provides a quirky aside to the larger statement made by the leisure facilities in the gardens proper.

A century earlier this part of Exmouth was just a strand, backed by dunes, marsh and pasture.

Another view of the Parade, showing Lowmans, baker; Lloyds Bank; Jenkins, newsagent and tobacconist; National Provincial Bank; Dews, children's clothing; and an estate agent.

Common Road was one of the early developments. It comes off Hursley Road, and descends to a stream crossed by a ford where the water might be so deep that food suppliers could not get across.

In the centre of the picture is a sailing wherry, the shallow, wide bottomed boat with its characteristic square sail, an adaptation of the traditional trading wherry.

The college buildings have changed little since they were built at the end of the fifteenth century.

Rushden, which merges to the north with Higham Ferrers, does not have a great deal of interest architecturally – except for its superb parish church, with a tower and spire nearly 164 ft high.

Long ago, this part of the Hampshire coast consisted of marsh and sandy wastes; it was from here that Henry III amassed his armies to re-conquer France.

The Hospital of St Cross was founded by Bishop Henry de Blois in 1136 and is the oldest almshouse in England, originally built to house, clothe and feed 'thirteen poor impotent men, so reduced in strength

Policemen directing traffic at the top of the High Street in this late 1920s photograph. The George Hotel, on the left, was demolished in the 1950s to facilitate a road-widening scheme.

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Much of the town dates from between 1890 and 1939, and many of its residents were employed by the railway.