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One of the great city institutions, possibly the Mansion House, is hung with swags of flowrers and garlands for the great occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession in 1897.

Some of the older buildings of the village present a pretty and tranquil picture below the wooded hillsides, although in 1955 the road through the middle of Staveley still carried all the traffic to and

The layout of Stamford, climbing gently in terraces up from the Welland, is well shown in this photograph from St Martin's church tower.

Frodsham was once an important town for stagecoaches, with a number of coaching inns such as the Bear's Paw (the stone gabled building on the left of the picture).

By the 1950s, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity and one of the most prosperous towns in England, as this view of the town centre shows.

Gawcott, a mile and a half south-west of Buckingham, lies at the head of a stream (flowing north into the River Ouse) whose course runs along the right-hand side of this road.

One local resident of two centuries ago was Philip Salkeld, who won the Victoria Cross at Delhi in 1857.

Look up the hill at the turn of the century, and see this posed but superbly evocative photograph of an attractive mixture of domestic building styles, culminating in the spire of Blomfield's Christ Church

The Foot of Porlock Hill 1923 Porlock Hill used to strike dread into the hearts of holiday-makers until relatively recently.

It was Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln and lord of the manor, who replaced the original Norman timber fortress with one of stone, employing Ranulph of Durham to build the gatehouse; Newark thus became one

Modern 1950s and 1960s houses of various different styles can be seen on the right of Great Houghton High Street in this photograph.

The Welds of Lulworth were one of the leading Roman Catholic families of England.

The production of steel was reaching the end of its competitive life by the time of this photograph, and within a couple of decades the industry was to be transformed - and greatly reduced.

The White Lion, one of many public houses in the village, was called the Rose and Crown in 1766, when it formed part of a marriage settlement between Mary Field and John Smith of Hitchin.

Many of the business on Wellington Street were trading until well into the second half of the 20th century.

Bedlington was once the capital of Bedlingtonshire, and as a part of the County Palatine of Durham belonged to the Bishops of Durham until 1844.

Another glimpse of the Swan Hotel's neo-classical portico can be seen through the leaves on the left.

The origin of St John's tower is not entirely clear.

At Hoveton there is a full mile of shimmering open water which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

Originally the first of the Cinque Ports, its Saxon harbour had silted up by the late 14th century, ending its role as the chief place of embarkation for the Continent and as England's premier naval

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilders' Southwick yard in 1989.

In the churchyard of St Nicholas's Church is the grave of the melancholic poet William Cowper, and St Withburga's Well, the site of the grave of one of the sainted daughters of the Saxon King Anna.

Linwood is situated high on the heathlands of the western edge of the New Forest, overlooking the broad valley of the Avon.

Situated in the Lox Yeo valley, this village enjoyed one of the finest views of the Mendip Hills.