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The building of the M4 created vast numbers of jobs, and the road continues to sustain those that remain working in local industry.

An exhibition of fine art was held in the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital in 1866.

This photograph must have been taken at the height of the holiday season because the shop on the right, M A Grinnall's, has a number of beach balls and inflatable air beds on display outside.

Eanulf, grandfather of King Offa of Mercia, founded a monastery at Bredon, though nothing of it is to be seen.

Weymouth's Nothe Gardens are beautifully situated on a headland overlooking the Isle of Portland and are the site of Nothe Fort, built to guard the huge naval harbour between the mainland and the Isle.At

The wheelwright in Old Colwyn was always busy making and repairing wheels and carts, as an inspection of the picture reveals.

Watergate Street is said to contain three of the finest examples of half-timber buildings still standing.

St Hilary's is one of only eight churches in the country dedicated to the saint. The lone tower dates back to the rebuilding of the 1530s, the rest of the church having been demolished in 1760.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor- style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

A soldier stands to the right of the gate. The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp.

A view of the south porch. St Andrew's Church was built in the latter part of the 15th century of oolitic limestone in the Perpendicular style.

He was later to die in 1712 as a result of a duel with the Duke of Hamilton.

In 1911 Reading formally absorbed much of Tilehurst, which had already in effect become a suburb of the town.

Through much of the Tudor period the Taylor family lived there, but in 1582 John Taylor found himself in debt, and he had to sell the lease to Henry Middlemore. The price was £1,318.

Previously a journey from London to Portsmouth entailed one of two options: to go to Croydon and then to Brighton, with a change there onto the South Coast line to Chichester and Portsmouth, or

Reaching Spalding we are in the heart of the bulb-growing country; the surrounding countryside is a glorious carpet of daffodils, tulips and other flowers at different times of the year.

Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.

Dolgellau was the county town of the old county of Merioneth, and is set amid the mountains which are famous for Welsh gold—the mines here provided gold for Royal wedding rings.

The steep roofs and gables in the Dutch style overlook a hive of activity in this street scene.

The timbered toll-bridge carrying the York road over the Ouse was erected in 1791, and was one of the earliest of its type in the country.

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century.

A Norman castle was built on West Cliff by William the Conqueror, which was replaced by a stone one. All is romantic ruin, and it is a much-favoured spot with visitors.

The latter write his poem 'Lamia' here, while Longfellow wrote a verse in praise of the ferruginous spring which issues out of the Chine, whose waters health-conscious visitors came to sample

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.