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There are 4 floors, 13 doors on every floor, 13 fireplaces, 52 stairs and 52 windows - hence its new name (after 1933) of the Pack of Cards Hotel.

Bunbury is a name familiar to those of us who enjoy Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest', but few people realise that such a village actually exists.

The parish church of St Martin is described as 'Anglo-Saxon origins, c1200, C13, C15, restored 1850' (Department of Heritage List). The former school, now the village hall, is dated 1846.

Boscombe developed to the east of Bournemouth in mid-Victorian times, attracting the wealthy and fashionable including Sir Percy Florence Shelley, the son of the poet.

Yet the quality of its spring water attracted great Roman interest, and the Trefriw Wells offered recuperative bathing facilities through to Victorian times, and are still a lure for visitors

Another great Nonconformist preacher dominates the Square at the opposite end of the High Street to John Bunyan.

In 1965 the birds still sang in the Town Hall gardens, and although relatively noisy, it was an extremely pleasant place to sit and mull over the fortunes of the day.

Corn-grinding Higher Mill (towards top left), which also produced oil, is glimpsed through the trees above a waterfall on the River Lim.

Seaward are a series of ledges. Lucy's Ledge Jetty (lower right) was constructed by the eminent geologist Sir Henry de la Beche in 1820.

Almost no building work was carried out at Dudley Castle for the 200 years between 1340 and 1540, but in 1540 John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland, set about rebuilding the residential block on

Other less literate residents of Grantchester are also remembered. Edward Wright, the village baker, gave his name to this row of cottages in the High Street.

St Elphin's crowning glory is its spire, soaring over the landscape at a height of about 281 feet, making it the third highest parish church spire in England.

The Post Office has moved into three different buildings between here and the Shoulder of Mutton.

However, this caused problems with the condition of the bathing water, with various bits of flotsam, jetsam, sand and mud washing into the baths.

Two little girls take a brisk walk on the prom at the turn of the century in their best holiday clothes.

Rothampstead, for 600 years in the hands of the Cressys, the Bardolphs and the Wittewronge-Lawes, lies close to the St Albans Road.

Along with Roker, Seaburn comprises what is in effect the seaside resort area of Sunderland, and there have been times when the Cat and Dog steps have positively heaved with sunbathers.

There were only two other bridges on British Railways that were longer than the Severn Bridge: the second Tay (10,711 ft) and the Forth (8296 ft).

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.

The town was once known for the manufacture of knitted woollen stockings and gloves, and it is said that George III wore stockings knitted here; much of the knitting was done in the open air.

This substantial civic building was the gift of a local J P, and befits a leading Irish port serving the daily Royal Mail run to Stranraer.

One hundred years before this, there were no large shops in the town, and the age of the department store was still a few years away.

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

The Harris Orphanage opened in 1888 after £100,000 was set aside by the Trustees of the Harris Estate to build and equip such an establishment.