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Central to the ceremony is the flitch of bacon itself. Here it is, hung from a frame and draped with greenery.

This is a delightful view of the 15th-century church, which has a plain tower without pinnacles. The cottages have small gardens, walled enclosures, sheds and washing lines.

Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).

The hamlet at the foot of Buttermere in the western Lake District takes its name from the lake; it is still the farming settlement it has always been.

Even in 1960, most of the residents would have been able to trace back their Dorset roots for generations, for there was not then the movement between English communities that there is today.

The village of Coolham is probably best known for a lovely old house known as the 'Blue Idol'. The house dates from the time of the Armada in 1588, and was originally a Friends' Meeting House.

The school chapel was designed by Mr G E S Streatfield and built by Messrs Bowman of Stamford. It is in the shape of a Latin cross, with short transepts and a short chancel ending in an apse.

The tosher, an example of which is the small white open-hulled sailing craft in the foreground, was a local class of hand liner.

Ornate lamps and fashionable street furniture have been added to the High Street since this photograph was taken.The trees in the street have been pollarded, and the premises of John Cole and Delbridges

The addition of tramlines and the double- decker electric tram advertising the famous Ben Evans store would have been brought into service sometime after the turn of the century.

At the end of the 19th century it acquired this splendid arcade of shops off Friar Street opposite the Town Hall. Severely damaged by a bomb, its site is now occupied by Bristol and West House.

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve.

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

Its more modern replacement now obscures part of the side of the shelter.

Still independent, it has a range of real ales and guest ales and serves food. Upper Clatford is a mile and a quarter south of Andover.

In 1888, when the site for the new library at Old Cross was being dug, a jumble of stones from the 13th-century St Mary the Less were uncovered.

This late Victorian scene is typical of many of the towns and villages in England at the time.

To the left of this photograph lies a golf course; over time more land has had to be purchased owing to erosion. In front of the chemist is a 1950 Daimler Consort saloon.

It is sad that the essentially 1930s character of the shop fronts has been eroded away by plate glass and aluminium.

Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

A monument to Queen Victoria stands in the park in front of the 16th-century Christchurch Mansion.

Foregate Street was one of the city locations painted by artist Louise Rayner (1832-1924) in a work entitled 'A Busy Street'. It certainly looks busy enough in this picture.

The Master Builder's House, now an hotel, was built by Henry Adams so that he might cut a dash on ship-launching days.

A new visitor centre now marks the entrance to Conisbrough Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in the country.