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The door, the two-seater sofa and the chairs give us some indication of how very large the Palm Court was.

The promenade - Undercliff Walk - alongside the Archbishop's Palace, looking north towards Maidstone Bridge and the chimneys of the industrial area beyond.

In front is one of the many bicycles and tricycles that flooded the town.

Part of the main dining room during an average lunch break. This building also housed management dining facilities, the Social Club, and private meeting rooms.

The present Guildhall building, with its clean neo-Georgian styling, replaced the earlier one on the south side of the market square in 1936-7.

This is Park Street in the days before the top end was dominated by the Gothic tower of the university, designed by Sir George Oatley.

Every approach to Newmarket passes through the surrounding heaths, where each day lines of slim, graceful racehorses can be seen being exercised by stable lads.

The present Guildhall building, with its clean neo-Georgian styling, replaced the earlier one on the south side of the market square in 1936-7.

On the right, beside the village pond, a horse-drawn wagon and a group of people wait in the shade.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Thirsk was one of the posting stations serving the Great North Road; The Fleece was the main coaching inn.

A lone farm wagon trundles between the houses in a village built of local slate. Only some chimneys and window surrounds are finished in brick.

The half-timbered village hall, with its adjacent rows of almshouses, overlooks this peaceful scene with its curiously maternal architecture.

A picturesque vista of Holt Hall, with its towering chimneys and many gables, cradled in magnificent parkland with shady trees.

The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.

Note the absence of road markings, the Co-operative shop on the left, and the various cars and passers-by.

This is a daily sight around the capital of horse racing - stable lads exercising racehorses on Newmarket Heath.

The spire, seen here from the back of the church, has been a landmark for mariners for centuries.

A great field tree survives in this rather dreary comment on the quality of mid 20th-century domestic

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

In Eliza Street, a number of children are at play.

The bridge has been raised to allow the passage of a small paddle steamer, which is probably on an excursion from Scarborough.

On the right, there appears to be one of the few musical urinals in the British Empire: a combined toilet and bandstand.

Originally built in 1760 as a market house, the courthouse, which stands in the centre of the square, was enlarged in 1810.

On the right is the Town Hall in all its Gothic splendour, which was completed in 1873 at a cost of £100,000.