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High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.

Emery Down, like many old Forest settlements, has seen its share of England's history.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the right is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

The river Erme tumbles down and makes its way through the village. Ivybridge was a popular destination for day trips for the workers of Plymouth.

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

Narrowboats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river. One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

The castle overlooks a branch of the river where it meanders between run-down buildings and small factories.

Further down West Borough, a Lyon's Tea van makes a delivery, perhaps to the Tivoli Cinema.

The Town Hall stands on the left of this photograph, which was taken from outside the church and looking down Highbridge Street.

Dedicated to two 6th-century saints, St Mael and St Sulien, this church looks down on the town and has done since medieval times.

Perhaps the people on the left are strolling down to the café in the Empire Cinema before seeing a film either there or in the Ritz next door.

The ornate balustrade has been dismantled leaving an altogether less imposing façade to look down the length of Queen's Avenue.

With their summer breezes, endless views and salty tang of the sea, the uncrowded expanses of the South Downs have long been a favourite haunt of writers and artists.

Note the chain of coloured light-bulbs along the front: at night this inn could be seen from several miles away down the river.

Down on the shore is the little village of Portwrinkle, another ex-pilchard fishing village.

To the left of the tower stands the Belfry Tree, a huge sycamore which blew down in a gale a decade after this picture was taken.

East Cliff is a popular spot of rough grassland where the downs meet the sea. The beach could be reached by a series of steps known as 'The Hundred Steps'.

This photograph looks down the High Street towards Salutation Square. Note the Ever Ready delivery van in the centre of the picture and the branch of Hepworths on the right.

The boat trips down the river to Colwick and occasionally to Radcliffe-on-Trent have always been popular.

King Charles II passed down its lanes as he sought a passage to freedom after defeat at the Battle of Worcester.

Two chums (right) march down Commercial Road, in the South Yorkshire colliery village of Skelmanthorpe.

This stone-walled lane leading down into Beresford Dale from the west is known as Beresford Lane.