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However, it was not successful, and took on a different role in 1859.

This is a good cross-section of late-Victorian fashions: the ladies' headgear varies from straw boaters to elaborate bonnets.

Goodspeeds ('Best Buy: Fine Fat English Plaice 2/2 a lb') was originally part of The Chequers Inn, the bulk of which lies just outside our picture, to the left.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

Chigwell Row was laid-out along the edge of Hainault Forest in the 18th century. By the 1840s it boasted 'many mansions and good residences, occupied by London businessmen and others'.

This part of Grays was developed in the 1930s. This road, Lodge Lane, was then the main A13, linking Southend and London.

The few waterside industries of Kingston were based off the High Street with their wharves backing onto the Thames.

A number of her sought-after country cottage pictures are of buildings in the Witley area.

Elmore Cottages still command the High Road opposite the village pond and crossroads but have been extended on the south side where the fence on the flint wall has been removed.

A wealth of timbers, tiles, gables, chimney-stacks and a thatched gateway make another attractive High Road house north of Ruffetts Cottages. It is now obscured by trees and hedges.

Beside the main road through the village on the base of the ancient cross is an elaborate war memorial.

The distant backdrop is of the high fells, and on a clear day, it is possible to see England's highest mountains from the foreshore esplanade.

It was just one of a number of generous donations made to the city during the 16th century; others included Bond's (Bablake) Hospital for poor men founded in 1506, and Bablake Boys' Hospital in 1560

Heavy bombing during the Second World War led to the redesign of the traffic system and yet another rebuilding of the pub.

It was in a Thames-side house here that the Gunpowder Plot conspirators allegedly met in 1605, within sight of the Houses of Parliament on the opposite bank.

The Victorian restoration did, however, unearth a medieval effigy of lady in a wimple, who could be Phillippa Chaucer, wife of the 14th-century poet, Geoffrey.

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

Dr John Dee held the living of Upton from 1553 until his death in 1608.

Here we see the façade of the Market Hall (left), and in the distance the Town Hall (1785) and Assembly Rooms (1882).

The Heads of the Valleys Road had not been built when this picture was taken, as it shows the A465 old Merthyr road leading into King Street, Brynmawr.

Apart from the ferry, Greenway Quay has been fairly quiet, with the exception of two periods.

In the 17th century, Swanbridge was one of the numerous small ports dotted around the Glamorgan coast shipping goods to Uphill and Bristol.

The sense of space and openness in Beaufort Square which is captured here has gone today, although it is about to change again.

Broadcasting House, the home of BBC Radio, was opened in 1932 with 22 studios.