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This shop frontage shows the development of the village shop into the mini-supermarket, ultra-modern for its time.

Rectory Road was extensively redeveloped in the 1970s, and many of its small shops were closed.

The Plough Inn, now known as Toad Hall, has long provided a place of refreshment to both villagers and travellers alike.

St Mary's church and the ruins of Whitby Abbey stand on the hill overlooking the harbour.

The buildings on both sides of the road have been extensively altered over the years. Note the Bush Hotel on the right (no longer trading).

The statue of Queen Victoria is gazing over the ornamental gardens by the River Trent.

Henry Heber, rector in the village of Hodnet for a time, wrote the hymn 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty'.

He described Wenlock as an 'ancient little town . . . with no great din of vehicles . . . a dozen 'publics' (pubs), with tidy whitewashed cottages . . . and little girls bobbing curtsies in the street

Each article of luggage carried on the outside cost 2d.

While the cathedral is the main feature of Ely, the town has also been a market town for many years.

At the top of Wells Road, as the town turns to moor land, lies this delightful area, ideal for a little perambulation.

Taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street looking down towards the High Street. The arched building on the left is presently a building site.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

To its right Barn Hill climbs gently north-west, a street of almost unspoilt Georgian houses.

The distinctive profile of Moorsholm church dominates this view as it still does today.

And if you still don't believe that Whitby faces north, just look on top of the flagpole.

Although once dedicated to St Dubricius, this church is now sanctified to the Nativity of the Virgin.

This fine beach of golden sand is seen in its early days as a bathing resort.

This old mining village lies just off the main road between St Agnes and Perranporth.

The arcade was the Victorian equivalent of a shopping mall, offering undercover shopping and retail outlets on two levels. In 1899 the arcade even had a bioscope parlour.

Passengers disembark for their holiday on the Isle of Wight. Many return - as Queen Victoria did - year after year.

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull. Note how the dark ashlar is picked out by severe white mortaring.

Looking across the River Deben , with a distant Bawdsey Manor on the far shore.

The old parish church of St Mary's dates from the 13th century, but was replaced by a new one, dedicated to St Cuthbert, in 1827. St Mary's still stands, but it is little more than a roofless ruin.