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This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.

The clothes of the traders may have changed, but Melton has been at the centre of the sheep farming industry for a number of centuries.

The Edinburgh Castle we see today is, with a few additions, that built by the Earl of Morton following the siege of 1572.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

This is one of the larger chalets with a garage at the side. Some of the much-loved deckchairs of the period are leaning against the wall, with bicycles for transport.

In the middle of the northern inner circle stands the Cove; it originally consisted of three stones, of which two now remain.

This row of cottages started life as one 15th-century house of the hall-and-wings type. It is now all one house again. St Michael`s Church is mainly early 14th- century.

At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.

Beyond the line of bathing machines, waves crash against the beach in this turn-of-the-century photograph. Much of the town's architecture dating from this period survives today.

A local landowner, the Earl of Plymouth, encouraged the building of Barnt Green Station (on the left here) for the convenience of his tenant farmers.

Axmouth's harbour, a mile from the heart of the village, is as picturesque as when the Frith photographers took this series of photographs.

The weir is at the junction of the roads to Chatteris and Ramsey. The manor of Warboys was held by the Cromwell family until 1622, when it was sold to Sir John Leman, Lord Mayor of London in 1616.

The 16th-century tower of the church of St Nicholas and St Teilo rises above the rooftops of leafy Penally. The tree line follows the line of the Tenby Pembroke railway track.

The weathered steps of the ancient Market Cross at Middleham show the antiquity of this medieval township at the mouth of Wensleydale.

Boughton House lies about one and a half miles to the south-east of Geddington. Situated in its own magnificent parkland, the house has been described as the 'English Versailles'.

Approaching the village from the west along the Botley Road, we see on the right All Saints' Church, built in 1836 in Early English style. The village war memorial is on the left of the picture.

Sir Robert Peel called it ‘one of the finest sites in Europe’.

To the left of the gatehouse can be seen the royal palace of James V, which abuts James IV's Prince's Tower.

Construction of St John's Priory was begun about 1075-76 when the Bishop of Lichfield, Peter de Leia, transferred the seat of his diocese to Chester.

The faces on the statues, probably the portraits of local inhabitants, were meticulously painted, despite the fact that the artists and sculptors knew they were not visible from below.

A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop. Below and to the right of St Mary's Church we can see the gable end of the Old Post Office.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.