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Many a year has passed since Mrs Gillam ran a small general shop in the village, stocking all manner of things from mops and buckets to sugar and sweets.

Visitors can walk in the footsteps of Shelley, Lord Tennyson and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Enjoyable seaside holiday activities never change, for the greatest joys of such a vacation are always the simplest. Here children paddle and play with toy boats in Boscombe's park.

During the latter half of the 20th century, villages such as Tibberton became favoured places to live for people working in neighbouring cities. New buildings appeared for commuting residents.

The low-lying marshes of the Broads were drained by windpumps until the 1940s, when electric pumps took over.

As the main road from Norwich to London, it was a popular stopping off point for travellers in need of refreshment.

Once the site of the old asylum, Barnwood, which comes after Hucclecote, gives access onto Eastern Avenue and the new developments that house commercial DIY stores and electrical businesses.

The corner of the Guildhall building can just be seen on the left. This view looks towards Endless Street to the large vertical Bus Station sign in the distance.

This view shows an early example of a houseboat. As an inexpensive home, converted narrowboats are still popular, especially closer to Oxford, where there are dozens to be seen.

This idyllic scene could be taken straight out of a Hardy novel. Unfortunately, the cottage was demolished in 1960. The pond is on the right, hidden by the trees.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as ‘Weregrave’.

There have been more plans for this area of open space than there are hot sunny days in the average summer.

This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

Only a few steps further along the High Street brings us to some of the multiple stores. Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

Exhibits in display cases have now appeared, and a collection of stone sculptural fragments is piled here and there.

The 190-foot spire of the parish church dominates the roofline on all approaches to the town. This is the second ecclesiastical building to stand on this site.

Wind and tide can build up or deplete sand on Cornish beaches. There is plenty of sand at Porthmeor today, and there are numerous facilities for the modern holidaymaker.

A once grand full-size swimming pool long- since empty and in a state of total disrepair. The fences are collapsing and the undergrowth is encroaching on all sides.

The playing field at Hazelbury Bryan is mowed and rolled, perhaps in anticipation of a cricket match.

This is a peaceful scene, with horse and cart on a deserted and remarkably leafy Lewes Road.