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Bridgnorth is really two towns, High Town at the top of a steep hill and Low Town at the bottom.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

The Henley Royal Regatta has become one of the key social occasions of the year, on a par with Royal Ascot and Wimbledon.

During the 1830s this pretty village was the scene of a major uprising among farm labourers, with angry mobs burning hayricks and destroying machinery.

Northumberland Street runs along the spine of the spur on which the town is built. After the harbour had become unusable, a number of warehouses and granaries were redeveloped.

On the left are two small shops owned by Mr Bushell and Mr Ruddock and, in the distance, the Seaview Hotel.

This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detail, is a feature of the High Street.

With the promise of a large contingent of moorlanders, Gell moved his force, which included artillery, to Uttoxeter. Few moorlanders turned up.

A more functional traffic island had replaced it and the age of the zebra crossing was under way.

One of the captains was landlord of the nearby Crooked Billet. When a big spring tide met the river's flow, the aegre, a wave similar to the Severn Bore, was seen at its best here.

Across the Witham, Avenue Road becomes Beacon Lane and passes the old barracks of 1858 and 1872 of the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia, now occupied by an auctioneers and valuers.

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

Branston, around its church, has delightful winding lanes; by the church stands Hainton House of 1765, a Georgian house of some dignity.

Another wide street, and also laid out as a market, it has many good stone houses, including almshouses of 1877 on the left and several pubs.

Markets and ports were an important part of the trading network during the Middle Ages. Indeed, by Domesday Arundel was already an important river port.

On either side of the High Street, some of the former well-stocked shops have become estate agents, marketing the many bungalows and houses that were built for families who came year after year to enjoy

There seemed to be a swell on the River Medway that day, but the photographer kept a steady hand to capture the imposing sights of the Norman castle and the cathedral.

The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road. Erected in the 1960s, it neatly sums up the building trends of the time.

'At weekends in summer and on Bank Holidays, Bourton on the Water has to suffer the invasions which have resulted from the discovery of its beauty, but at other times its charms are unobscured and can

Many of the thousands of visitors who arrive each year drawn by the trout farm and other local attractions probably leave in agreement with him.

At the centre of Dalton Square stands a bronze statue of Queen Victoria guarded by four lions, given to the city by Lord Ashton. He also donated the new Town Hall, which stands at the back.

The Arena, built below the sea-front promenade, was billed as the 'premier open-air theatre of the north'.

The greenhouses provided most of the pot plants and flowers which were used in the house, and were used to cultivate roses, tomatoes and orchids.