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Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

A short stroll from the toll bridge brings you to the little church of St Mary's.

At this time boys were often in their teens before they got a pair of long trousers. Jeans were unheard of, and the design of children's clothes had hardly changed for thirty years.

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars.

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

The gateway was built in 1504 as the entrance to the Priory of St John of Jerusalem. The photogapher was standing in St John's Lane, which leads under the arch into St John's Square.

With its distinctive BO number plate we know that the car on the right was registered in Cardiff. But what of its driver?

Despite the brickwork at the east end, Marton's church of St James and St Paul is one of the oldest surviving timber churches in Europe - it was founded in 1343 by Sir John de Davenport, and hence the

The abbey was founded by Richard de Granville in about 1130, at the same time as he established his castle on the other side of the river.

Lee Tower was built at the end of the pier in 1935; it was Art Deco in style, and 120 ft tall. From the top it was possible to see right across the Solent to the Isle of Wight.

Littleport is distinguished as being the last place on which the Bishop of Ely exercised his temporal powers.

Looking at the lifeboat hanging from the davits (presumably there was one on the other side), one is tempted to wonder whether they would have been sufficient to cope in an emergency if this paddle steamer

There was a time when cinema censorship was at a local level, usually performed by the watch committee.

The King's Head's three doorways can be seen, and the inn-signs of a carved bunch of grapes and a portrait of King Charles II.

A famous view of Leeds Castle rising serenely from its two islands in a lake on the river Len.

A view of the 19th century colonnade at the Market Buildings in Earl Street. This was built in 1825.

Among the many old buildings in this stretch of the High Street is the Tudor brick Eastgate House, seen on the right, and now the Charles Dickens Centre.

The solid stone structure of the Midland Bank building stands at the central junction, where the main A225 to Deptford is crossed by the A25 linking Maidstone and Westerham.

To the right is a destroyer of the Reserve Fleet; in the centre is the Naval Dry Dock; and to the left is the Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry.

The military importance of Brecon continued into the 20th century and up to the present day.

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.

Within easy distance of the railway station, the Royal Hotel served Ilkley's many visitors for nearly a century.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.