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Parliament Street is paved with wooden blocks in front of the new Home Office. The far end, on the corner of Downing Street, is the Colonial Office.

He wrote of 'my landlady here at Selborne, who, while I am writing my notes, is getting me a rasher of bacon, and has already covered the table with a nice clean cloth.'

The barrel organ always drew a huge crowd with its wheezy renderings of popular tunes.When a trio of frightened monkeys was introduced the attraction for children was irresistible.

Packed to the gunwales, the newly-commissioned pleasure steamer 'Teal' leaves Bowness Pier for a trip on Windermere.At this time, private boat ownership was beyond the means of all but the wealthiest

Cockermouth is situated where the River Cocker joins the River Derwent on its way to the Irish Sea at Workington.

Like Morgan's the confectioner's (C240004), this shop (left), a post office and grocer's run by Pardey & Johnson, was built at the end of the 19th century.

S G Smith on the left is still at the end of the parade of shops, and still sells cars. At the opposite end, the trees mark the old burial ground beyond the road junction.

The clock was made by J B Joyce of Whitchurch and sits on top of ornate ironwork designed by John Douglas.

They were built in 1798 by Richard Pringle for John Wood of Beadnell Hall, and it was Wood who also extended the harbour for the export of lime and coal.

This area of the North Devon coast has acres of sandhills. These, at Saunton, were riddled with tiny beach chalets. Many survived until relatively recent times.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

Much of this area is unchanged today: it is an attractive combination of golden stone buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Town Hall with its clock is on the left.

Bisley's church of St John the Baptist dates back to the 13th century, and it has a 15th-century porch believed to be made from a single oak.

The attractive heath, with its colourful heathers and gorse, reach down to a village boasting several buildings constructed of exquisite brickwork.

Much of what remains is Norman and Early English; the mighty tower was rebuilt in the 13th century. A piece of original Axminster carpet hangs within.

It was in this house on the left that Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

Three of the famous Liverpool ferry boats are leaving the landing stage.

A fine study of the cathedral with the huge west front dominating the scene. Perhaps the most famous symbol of the Anglican church, it is a dominant landmark for many miles around.

This is a river-side view of the huge, crescent-shaped weir constructed above Arkwright's Masson Mill on the River Derwent, with the tree-topped tor of Willersley Rocks filling the background

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

The typical white-weatherboarded and tile-roofed cottages of the region characterise this ridge-top hamlet north- east of Wadhurst.

Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, immortalised in 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', was born at Cowes in 1796.