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The running of the postal service in Victorian times was considered vital to the public good.

Railways had boosted industry and the city's growth from the middle of the 19th century; the expansion engulfed detached hamlets, thus creating more parishes, which were a basis for local government.

Just 14 years after this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman Doctor of Medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908

The children, all in smart hats or bonnets, have mostly managed to stand still long enough for the photograph, except for the baby in the splendid period perambulator, whose head is a blur of activity.

The hamlet of New Mill grew up near the canal north of Tring around Tring Mill, now Heygate Flour.

From the rear of the Black Boy are fine views towards North Marston, the hill dropping sharply into the valley.

Castle Hill is next to Coopers Hill, and is best accessed from the Abbotswood estate in Brockworth, or from a footpath off the A46.

This view shows a varied mixture of buildings in the central part of this small village, with a tiled dormer-windowed cottage and a weather-boarded two storey house on the left, while on the right stands

Anstey's Cove, with Redgate Beach hidden on the left, was a favourite bathing spot for Agatha Christie, who was born in Torquay in 1890.

The boat under construction here is one of the famed Brixham trawlers.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

Mock Gothic turrets were added, a profusion of sharply arched windows and much other sham detailing. To many the stupendous structure had the look of an ornate medieval castle.

The towering chapel of this school dominates the landscape for miles around; its position is wonderful, high above where the South Downs are cut deep by the Adur valley on its way to the sea.

Close to the village, medieval ridge and furrow cultivation has been preserved in its meadows and closes, and on its western edge the back lanes seem to be in an unusually complete state.

Nine miles from York on the road to Leeds, Tadcaster was once the Roman outpost of Calcaria.

This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

This grim hard-featured town of grey-stone houses became a place for textile factories. It was at Haworth parsonage that the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and worked.

Children at play in the village of Chilworth, outside Southampton.

Here we see the Pierhead Building, the head offices of the Bute Docks Company, later to be known as the Cardiff Railway Company.

No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.

East of Gainsborough the Market Rasen road climbs the Lincoln Cliff, the limestone ridge which runs due north from Lincoln at about two hundred feet above sea level.

Olton Boulevard East is a long, wide road of mostly municipal housing, linking Warwick Road with Shaftmoor Lane.

Opposite was Booths the grocer's, part of a chain of shops, who ran a popular café upstairs.

Christchurch was built by Edmund Withypoll in 1548-50, of red brick, on the site of Holy Trinity Priory. In 1893 the house and park were offered for sale.