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The red- brick solidity of the houses presents an almost urban face, apart from the small front gardens.

To the south of the lake the Coal Board built a children's swimming pool. It was later made rectangular, but now appears disused and empty of water.

Frith's photographer was outside St Swithun's churchyard, looking through Cannon Square towards the south-east arm of the Market Square and the 18th-century White Hart.

The Co-op have modernised their premises from the original three shops (a baker's, a grocer's and a butcher's) to a modern supermarket.

This village is in the Ouse valley just north of the town of Newhaven. St John's church is on high ground overlooking the tidal river.

The Transporter Bridge was opened on 17 October 1911 by Prince Arthur of Connaught, whose father had opened Albert Park in 1868.

This section of Linthorpe Road has changed mainly in the shop owners. Very few remain the same, although Halfords (right) only moved in recent times.

Many of the houses here have the initials NEC, standing for the New England Company that once owned the parish. On the left is the post office, which closed in the 1980s, and the Chequers Inn.

The town's connection with Owain Glyndwr gives it a unique place in Welsh history, as he was the last Prince of Wales to be crowned with the title.

This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.

This view of the former mining town has changed little since 1955. The Red Lion is now an estate agents, and The White Lion in the distance (left) is still there.

The Lloyds Bank to the left of the road is still in existence and bears a commemorative plaque to Gwen John and her brother Augustus John, both artists.

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

The red- brick solidity of the houses presents an almost urban face, apart from the small front gardens.

The low tide has left a good deal of Tate Hill sands uncovered.

That scenario was dismissed, but costs to underpin the pier were to total £28,000, and further revenue was lost by the absence of steamer custom during the period of repair.

One of the oldest surviving fragments in the town, this 12th-century arch now forms the entrance to St Mary's Passage, a narrow path running down towards the meadows.

The 'new look' in fashions is demonstrated by the young woman crossing the street with her more dowdy companion; longer skirts, wider shoulders and a nipped-in waist were signs of relaxation from wartime

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

Caddell's Printing Office at number 1, King Street, just visible on the extreme left and next door to the Jackson Brothers' drapery store, was founded by John Samuel Caddell, a stationer, bookbinder,

In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.

Lacock is a village that has been almost entirely preserved and protected from the ravages of modern development and commercial life.

For this view Frith's photographer swung his camera north-east from view 40540 of the church looking across the water meadows. Here the stream widens and was used as a waggon wash.

He endowed many public libraries at the turn of the 20th century. Here, right, is Horbury's Carnegie Free Library, built in 1905 and opened on 14 February 1906.