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Commanding an excellent viewpoint, Halton Castle was first built as a wooden castle soon after the Norman invasion of England.

This peaceful village developed as a group of farmhouses around a village green, which until recently was rectangular in shape.

Aveley is a small village situated a few miles to the east of Rainham and close to the Thames and Essex Marshes.The parked bicycles on the right, no cars to be seen and the crowd waiting for the bus

A safe haven for cyclists on a sunny day - some manage to ride two abreast toward the photographer.

The market originally took place on the Green, but was confined to the south side of it after the Chapel on the Green was built in 1805.

This open plain of sea front has since been divided by the sea wall and a modern motor road.

Old fishing boats, some decommissioned, are beached on the foreshore on the Lelant side of the estuary.

The Fire Station and Parish Room on the left opened in 1904.

We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay.

Each of the four square corner towers is topped off with octagonal machicolated turrets, from which unpleasant things could be dropped upon the heads of unwelcome visitors.

Linlithgow reached its final form during the reign of James V, though the north wing was reconstructed in the neo-classical style between 1618-1633.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.

Horse trams are slowly climbing the hill on their journey from Tettenhall.

The first large property on the left is The Towers, and in front of it is the path leading down to the harbour and Jackson's Bay.

In 1957 it was taken over by the Claretian Missionaries, and under their care the Catholic church of St Hugh of Lincoln was built in 1959.

It overlooks the recently refurbished Thinking Soldier war memorial, designed by Lady Kathleen Scott (widow of Captain Scott of the Antarctic) and erected in 1923.

Large cargo ships standing off the mouth of the River Tees are still a familiar sight today.

Burton's the tailors displays its fine facade with Portland stone columns, which was created by rebuilding the corner of Horsemarket Street and Buttermarket Street in 1937.

This 12-mile-long railway was constructed along the south side of the Rheidol in 1901 to transport lead ore from the mines to the harbour, but it became a very popular tourist attraction for those wishing

A century earlier, during the Civil War, one Roundhead sergeant said of the local people, 'The inhabitants are totally ignorant in the ways of God, and much addicted to drunkeness and other vice

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

We are looking along Grange Road from the corner of Oxton Road.

To the left, and above the bow of the tanker Dauphine, we can see the huge lock gates that give access to the Manchester Ship Canal. The canal was opened on 1 January 1894.

It is certainly not unlikely that these men and boys are workers at what remained of the indigenous ironworking industry after the 1877 collapse.