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Carisbrooke's dramatic castle, rich in history, made the town a popular tourist attraction with early visitors, includ- ing the poet Tennyson, who may have incorporated aspects of the castle into his

The Beacon, just south of the Atlantic Hotel (in the background) was once a Coastguard lookout. Its place is now occupied by the town war memorial, which incorporates the lookout in its structure.

Village houses of different ages front the street. The thatched roof has a patterned blocked ridge. Next door is a small pub. The road leads down to the River Ouse and Buckden Mills.

The great cathedral spire dominates the view, with the square block of the castle on the left and St Peter Mancroft's tower in between.

Now no longer a pub, the Britons Arms on the left, built as a community of religious women in the 15th century, was the only house to survive a great fire in 1507.

The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name.

It was intended to link New Radnor with Old Radnor, two miles distant, to form a major city to be the capital of Radnorshire. The project faltered, confirming Welsh antipathy to large settlements.

Despite increases in population and the subsequent rise in road traffic, Herefordshire still manages to retain an aura of peacefulness and serenity, exemplified in this photograph.

By the last year of Victoria's reign Bournemouth had become an established seaside resort.

Sometimes the inhabitants of the Forest, whether they be ponies, deer, badger or foxes, still come to town.

The design for a new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was thrown open to competition; the winning entry was submitted by Elizabeth Scott, great-niece of Sir Gilbert Scott. The new theatre opened in 1932.

The fountain in the centre was built at the beginning of the 17th century by Italian craftsmen.

What makes the Wet Dock so useful is that it is a non-tidal section of the port. Water in the dock is held at a con- stant level by the lock gates.

Large stacks of deck chairs punctuated the prom- enade. Ice cream was delivered in aluminium boxes, some can be seen beneath the serving hatch.

Wilton, once the capital of Wessex, was the most important town in early medieval Wiltshire. This is Kingsbury Square, with St Edith's church on the left.The road across the square is the A30.

Improvements have extended to the racecourse area; however, the wooded heights of the Wyndcliffe can still be seen on the horizon.

When the Wet Dock was constructed in Ipswich between 1839 and 1842, it was the most revolutionary and the biggest of its kind in the country.

Despite increases in population and the subsequent rise in road traffic, Herefordshire still manages to retain an aura of peacefulness and serenity, exemplified in this photograph.

Despite increases in population and the subsequent rise in road traffic, Herefordshire still manages to retain an aura of peacefulness and serenity, exemplified in this photograph.

On the way into Newark from Farndon the navigation passes a number of old maltings and a large Trent Navigation Co warehouse, which can be seen in this picture in the left background.

The Bell Hotel was demolished in 1969 during the redevelopment of the area; but the dark building next door with the projecting upper storeys still survives and houses a wonderful old fire surround.

This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but now relied on agriculture and quarrying. In 1902 the railway finally came to Grassington with the opening of a line to Skipton.

A picture postcard view of Goudhurst, looking up the hill to the church peeping out at the top. This view is little changed today.