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Although the advent of the railway saw Sheringham develop into a resort, its origins are in fishing.

A great deal of building took place during the years that followed; the population increased three-fold during Queen Victoria's reign.

Two other famous residents of East Budleigh were two smuggling parsons - Matthew Mundy and Ambrose Stapleton.

The group of people on the left appear to be on a well prepared outing and are having a picnic. The small huts are where you hired your boat from for a by-the-hour row round the bay.

The organ over the pulpitum, the screen between choir stalls and nave, was installed in 1899 to replace the one of 1834 shown in photograph No 28152.

St Bartholomew's dates from the 1200s, and much of the 62ft tower is original. The church has stocks and a charnel house in the graveyard. The name Colne means 'roaring river'.

It is hard to imagine that this tranquil harbour scene is only about nine miles away from the bustling, industrial scenes of Dublin Harbour seen earlier in this book.

The towered and porticoed Town Hall which closes the vista, a fine Classical building of 1834, subsequently lost its tower and has now been completely demolished: this is a great loss to the town's architecture

Here is the hunter, bred to cross in safety the open pastures of the Shires, formed in the enclosures' favourite hedge-planting material, which makes up the obstacles to its safe progress.

The Dropping Well is a petrifying well, similar to those at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects that fall into it.

Just six years earlier than the date of this photograph, White Scar Cave, just off the road between Hawes and Ingleton, was discovered.

We are looking south from outside the Methodist Church on a stretch of the High Street which is now pedestrianised.

The building on the right is the Overmonnow Post Office, advertising a Parcel Post service and with the built-in post box to the left of the window.

The story behind the bravery of these men is detailed elsewhere in this book.

An early photograph of the crosses before restoration had taken place, as seen in 67326, page 98.

The store on the corner is that of W H Smith, which now occupies a different site. The perambulator in the foreground now seems decidedly old-fashioned.

We are in London Road, with a mixture of transport passing, right by The Cricketer's Inn, which has now had some extensions added.

It is noted for the many gargoyles that festoon its tower, while inside there is a monument to the First Earl of Ellesmere.

Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge. The others are Finkle Street and Stramongate.

The river falls only slightly along this part of its course and can be seen to have a wide flood plain and a tendency to form islands.

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.

A view from near the Clarence Gate bridge at the southern end of the Boating Lake.

The names on the shops are different, some of the trees have gone, the road has been resurfaced and fashions have changed, but not much else. The narrow street is fringed with cobbles.

Now entitled Reading College and Schools of Art and Design, and extended to the east, the Technical College was built on King's Road in the 1950s to somewhat mediocre and repetitive pallid neo-Georgian