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This view of Allerford's much photographed 15th-century packhorse bridge and ford looks much the same today. The guesthouse to the right now has a public bar.

We are looking towards the imposing building of the Presbyterian church in the distance and Groundwell Road.

The archway to this bar dates from the 11th century; this is the oldest of York's gates.

Bedale is also just off the A1 and on the route into Wensleydale from Leeming Bar. This

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

We can see the monument topped by a dragon marking Temple Bar on the City boundary in the middle of the road.

This photograph shows the east end of London Road, with Sainsbury`s grocery shop to the right and the Capitol Cinema on the left.

This is an odd echo of the past; moored hereabouts 700 years ago would have been ocean-going trading vessels loading up with tin.

The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.

We have moved nearer the High Street junction.

Many of the people seen here would be day trippers rather than resident visitors, having come for a breath of fresh sea air on one of the many excursion trains from inland.

Tucked in behind the Bear is an early 19th-century rebuilding of a timber house, which may have survived the Great Fire.

From the early days of caravan parks, it soon became apparent that visitors wanted the sites to become 'one stop shops' incorporating shopping and entertainment.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The bridge was not always as level, strong and wide as this.

Axmouth was once a considerable port, and boats navigated the River Axe as far as Colyton. Certainly the Vikings, raiding this coast, used the Axe to seek plunder far inland.

This panoramic view looks across the rapidly-drying mud flat called the Salty in the foreground, and shows the point jutting into the River Teign and the pier at the Den.

Looking towards the Bull Ring from Union Street, we see (right) the rebuilt Strafford Hotel and the former shops, now a café bar.

The pavilion has lost its minarets, but it is now equipped with both an indoor snack bar and a self-service buffet. We can also see Prince's Park with its colonnade to the right of the casino.

Huddled around the quay were Yarmouth's famous Rows, close to 140 narrow foot passages. They were likened by Dickens to the bars of a gridiron.

The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade. Whelking was not always a comfortable affair.

'The newest fashion newspaper and the oldest-style tavern still jostle each other now as they did a century or more ago.'

Despite the fact that post-war rationing was still in force, this market town was thriving. On the left is an optician's, A Bateman's.

In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port.