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A thatcher is just patching the long straw thatch of the cottage row; the nearer cottage butts against the former farmhouse, and has a pantiled roof with sloping dormer windows.

Hollybush Lane lies in the southern part of the Garden City, and its tree-lined footpath and grassy triangular area typify Ebenezer Howard's vision of a ordered village atmosphere.

The High Street has a fascinating diversity of provincial architecture dating from the 16th century through to the late 19th century.

On the slopes below the Fort, known in Edwardian times as Fort St George and run as a guest house and tearoom, the depressions in the hillside are largely the result of surface quarrying.

Christchurch stands on two rivers, the Stour and the Avon, and gets its original name Twyneham, or Tweoxneham, from the Anglo-Saxon meaning 'the town between the two rivers'.

Still a going concern, Hinckley's busy market draws people from a wide area of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

A new east window by Christopher Webb and a statue of St Andrew by John Skelton appeared in the 1960s.

The old church and churchyard lie in the trees on the left, and the old wooden church hall - now gone - can be seen in the right foreground.

Land for an ornamental park and recreation ground, an area of some 30 acres in North Ormesby, was given to the town by Councillor and Mrs J G Pallister.

This sea front view also includes the Marine Hotel, along with some interesting cars of the period.

The memorial was appropriately sited at Bridge Foot, the scene of many battles in Warrington's past.

The name Kersey means 'cress island', a fact to contemplate when crossing the Brett by bridge or ford. At the top of the hill is one of the best-known views in Suffolk.

Smyth's Peasenhall works, where the famous agricultural drills were made, is off to the right. The house to the left is a former 16th-century farmhouse, now divided into three dwellings.

Local gentry applied for an Act of Parliament to allow them to build a new town and to develop the harbour, and work began in 1807, when the grid of streets was laid out.

The style of the stalls has changed somewhat in the last 50 years and there are now a number of fast-food vans in evidence.

Ringwood stands on the banks of the meandering River Avon, at the New Forest's western boundary. A Saxon town in origin, it may get its name from its location.

The old flaming torch sign (left) marks the approach to the village school in Holmfirth Road, Meltham, another Pennine edge town founded on the textile industry.

Todmorden Town Hall, built in 1870, once stood on the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, a fact reflected in the carvings in the pediment frieze on its classical front, shown here: there are bales

By the 18th century, Bishop Auckland was an important market town at a crossing point of the Wear.

In the 1950s the village was not dependent upon coal mining for its prosperity, as the quarrying of dolomite (magnesium limestone) was being undertaken in the area on a large scale.

The grassy sward in the foreground is now the Helen Garden, and the middle distance is dominated by South Cliff Tower, an unfortunate eighteen-storey block of flats built in 1966 that sits ill amid

The tide is in, and the sea is a millpond fringed by bathing machines in this view looking from the lawns east of the Wish Tower.

Looking towards Beachy Head, this view shows the 'combe' of Holy Well with its paths. It is here that the sea can be reached, albeit by a steep path, in a break in the cliffs enlarged by quarrying.

The beach huts of curiously railway style have long gone and are now replaced by modern toilets, but the fine views of the chalk cliffs remain.