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Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.

Opposite are signs for a 'Day and Night Telephone' and the star-sign of the Star Tea Company (centre left), with the Royal Lion Hotel further down the street.

In this picture, the camera is looking down Church Street from High Street (renamed Stoke Road in 1959).

The name 'Raleigh' refers to their previous premises in the town, which were burnt down.

Gallowtree Gate runs out of Granby Street and London Road as it drops down to the Clock Tower.

The village green is the largest in the Fylde and is graced by a duck-pond and the original village pump (other pumps were melted down and used for jointing new water mains by the Fylde Water Board).

Boots (in the middle distance on the right) is also still with us, but the Coliseum cinema beyond is now a good museum of the town's history.

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

By 1900 it had ceased milling corn and was a timber yard and chair maker's workshop, but it burned down completely in 1912.

The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.

The Bear Hotel was a much-visited restaurant in the 1960s and 70s, but it became rather run-down and lost most of its clientele. It has re-opened following renovation and cleaning.

But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

The Cotswold rivers of Coln and Leach join the Thames here, and the town is much influenced by them.

On the corner, behind the now vanished telephone box, are the premises of A & W Riches & Son, an ironmonger's, and further down is the shop of V Carter & Sons.

On the left edge is the Royal Norfolk Hotel, rebuilt here in 1826 after the earlier one burnt down.

The older part of town is surrounded on all sides by water - the River Aire and two canals. Rope making was a flourishing industry both for the marine and agricultural markets.

Fred is laying down money & no mistake.' After the deth of Frederick Crowley, Ashdown was acquired by Guy Ferrand, who changed the name to Morland Hall.

Great Marsden covers what is now called Colne, and Little Marsden was known as Nelson down to Reedley. Walverton Water ran between the two Marsdens.

High Street c1960 On the left is the Town Hall with its unu- sual lead-sheathed clock turret.

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

This is seemingly a quiet place on the Esk Valley that runs down to Whitby, but this bridge was swept away in a flood on 23 July 1930. It was rebuilt in 1992 in the style of the original.

After its closure in the 1950s, the buildings were taken down and it became the site of a petrol station and tyre-fitting business; but in the late 1990s, this in turn was demolished.