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The town became a thriving port, from which 200 vessels a year carried 265,000 tons of Forest of Dean coal.

Designed by J W Stansby (who also designed the tower of Christ Church), St Paul's was built in 1868-69 at the expense of the Grand Junction Railway Company. The spire was added in 1888.

Straddling Stock Ghyll, which runs by the side of the main road, this curious little structure is probably the best-known feature of Ambleside.

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.

A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion of the stables

Maid Marian Way, built between 1958 and 1966, was a disaster: its crass dual carriageway cut a swathe that separates the castle area from the rest of the city.

Paglesham is a village of two parts, Church End and East End.

The 1950s and 1960s were ideal decades for taking to the quiet country roads and villages to enjoy the exhilaration of motor-car driving.

While the village lads pose for the camera and the girls stroll nonchalantly by on the other side, a `bullnose` Morris overtakes a horse and cart.

Additionally, two of the three shops on the left have now gained self-supporting roller blinds, whilst the furthest away still rests on its stilts.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

The photographer has certainly attracted a sizeable group of curious onlookers in this scene dominated by James Howell's store (right).

The original title of this photograph as it appears in the Frith archive is 'Jubilee Hall'.

Here there is a profusion of telegraph wires and power cables, but no TV aerials.

The post office has moved, and is no longer in the far distance on the right of the road.

This lovely thatched, half-timbered inn has stood on this site, alongside the connecting road from Birkenhead to Neston, since 1611.

The building to its left has been demolished to create a car parking area, and the ornate clock on the wall of W Sumpter's stationer's shop (left) is also, unfortunately, a thing of the past.

The museum was erected in 1881 as a 21st birthday present for Walter Rothschild by his mother at a cost of £3300.

It originally started as just five women students assembling in a house in Cambridge to be tutored by Mrs Jemima Clough; as the establishment grew, it moved into a building in the suburb of Newnham, taking

However, some areas of the Durham coast were polluted with spoil dumped directly into the sea from nearby collieries.

Covering 350 acres, Penshurst Park has many fine oaks; a chancel screen in St John the Baptistís church is made of Penshurst oak.

The church of St Mary and St Hugh was badly damaged by fire in 1708, which burnt down the spire and melted the bells.

The 'No Waiting' road sign (left) was used during the 'unilateral waiting' period, when vehicles could wait on one side on odd days of the month and on the opposite side on even days.

Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, the architect of the Grand Hotel, Scarborough and the Leeds Town Hall, this splendid structure joined Ben Rhydding Hydro in putting Ilkley firmly on the water cure map.