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The churchwarden awaits the arrival of the owners of the abbey (who at this date would have been the Stricklands), ready to escort them up to their private gallery in the church; the gallery

In the years immediately prior to the Great War, a number of British car manufacturers got round the problem of the poor state of most of the country’s roads by offering ‘colonial’ versions of

At the top of Greenway Road, looking back towards the heart of old Runcorn is the war memorial.

There was a church in Holt by 1086, the year of the Domesday Book.

The somewhat interestingly named hamlet of Dirt Pot lies just one mile north of Allenheads.

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield.

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage. The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.

Part of the old Ramper Road, this end of Victoria Road passes the Congregational church where Mr W Gornall was a great supporter.

Of the priory buildings, only the mid 14th- century gatehouse survives, with the medieval market cross in front.

Following the death of Ambrose Dudley in 1589, Warwick Castle was once again in the hands of the Crown.

Brimington is one of a number of similar former coal mining villages to the east of Chesterfield, and today villages like this are seeking a new identity.

One of the resort's more enduring pleasures, the children's section of Southport Zoo truly gave happiness to many hundreds of thousands.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Otterton has some of the best examples of cob and thatch cottages in Devon. Many of the homes we see in this photograph date from between the 15th and 18th centuries.

The monument stands in the centre of an area known as the Sanctuary by the west door of the abbey and on the site of the abbey gateway.

The coming of the Heads of the Valleys Road greatly changed the landscape of this area. Today this busy road is rarely as quiet as this.

Courtenay is the family name of the Earls of Devon, who were the major landowners in the area and responsible for much of the Victorian expansion of Newton Abbot.

An interesting mix of architectural styles characterises Braunston's High Street. Some of the houses are built of brick, some of stone.

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

The 13th-century fortress at Inverlochy is a quadrangular enceinte with a round tower at each of the angles; the largest of these is known as Comyn's Tower, and forms the donjon.

A sheltered location and mild climate have brought generations of holidaymakers to Ventnor. The town lies at the foot of an eight hundred feet hill with gradients in some streets of 1 in 4.

Another important source of income for the locals was smuggling.

Fawley stands on the western bank of Southampton Water, just where it flows out into the Solent.

One of the attractions of this coast was the health-giving quality of the sea air. There were two sanitoria in Mundesley, one of which advertised revolving shelters for TB patients.