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Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town

Penarth has achieved status both as a sought-after suburb of Cardiff and also as a summer resort. Here we can see the busy beach scene complete with the 19th- century pier.

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

Chorley's oldest building is the parish church of St Lawrence, which was built in the 14th century. The centre aisle is the original church; the two side aisles were added in c1860.

The original village, Old Langho, lies a mile to the north; the new village grew here alongside the main road after the opening of Spring Mill, whose chimney rises in the background.

Built in the 1840s, this row of coastguard cottages still stands, although Pegwell itself has been engulfed by Ramsgate.

Penarth has achieved status both as a sought-after suburb of Cardiff and also as a summer resort. Here we can see the busy beach scene complete with the 19th-century pier.

It is hard to imagine how sailing ships once came in and out of here.

To the left of the war memorial is Boots the Chemist, with its old-fashioned shop frontage. It is no longer on this site.

By the mid 1950s, Halsey's had taken over all the premises in the row, with the exception of a jewellers, James Walker. The billboard that was above the shop has been removed.

At this time Ormskirk was a busy little town of around 6,500 people. On market days the favourite places for a tipple were the Wheatsheaf, the Talbot and the King's Arms.

Less than a decade after photograph No 32343, the focus of attention is the motor bus in the street. In contrast, note the girl and large-wheeled pram on the left.

This view of the riverside was taken from Bickleigh Bridge. The lowering skies are clearly standard English holiday weather; the cameraman is having to fight his eternal battle against bad light.

This view, taken from the bottom of Main Street, looks up the hill towards the station. It shows the bustling town, with a carriage and a cart the only wheeled traffic.

The Victoria Institute contains Worcester's museum, art gallery and library and was built as a celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

The canal was used to facilitate the transportation of salt all around Britain.

Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

As it was never a very prosperous area, there are few early buildings of interest in and around Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale. The timber building here, Rose Cottage, is a rare survival.

Coloured lamps are strung on wires around the lake as part of the town's illuminations.

This final view over Emery Down shows the extent to which the deep woodlands of the New Forest cluster around this ancient settlement. This wildness has survived into the 21st century.

Rationalisation has seen a good many of them close down.

It floods the interior of the nave with light, filtered through stained glass.

We are in the village centre on Queensway. The restaurant was closed for the winter here, but it certainly looked neat and tidy and waiting for the rush of summer visitors.

Here we see a fine example of a Norfolk wherry under sail, but apparently almost becalmed. This is the river Bure, and the church tower in the distance is St Benedict.