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There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.

This is typical of the rural river scenes at Weybridge at the turn of the century, before the First World War.

Marks & Spencer's (left) has been a constant presence in Wrexham at a time when town centres generally have been under perpetual threat of change.

Almost everyone in this Edwardian photograph is looking at the camera.

Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.

This street has become estate agents' row - at Nos 4, 14, 18a and 24 Chalet Hill that is just what you will find.

The 14ft-high column was erected in 1842 to honour Admiral Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar.

At the bottom end of the High Street, in the old market place, pride of place goes to the water pump crowned by a gas street light.

The imposing yellow brick Gothic Revival building, with 210 rooms and a 1,000ft terrace, put Ilfracombe in the first rank of resorts when it was opened on 15 May 1867.

This is Thomas Telford's iron bridge, crossing the River Severn at its junction with the River Avon.

Some of the businesses seen here include Mason's (hosiers and hatters) at number 85, George Roberts & Sons (butchers) at number 89, and china dealer John Ingham at number 93.

This is an unusual but very attractive station at the end of the Northern Line, designed by Stanley Heaps in 1924; at the time he was architect to the London Underground Electric Railways.

At first glance, Church Houses seem to be typical farm labourers` cottages next door to the church, but a closer look at the left- hand group suggests that once this was a single substantial

Between the 14th and early 19th centuries, Bursledon was an important centre for naval shipbuilding, with the wooded slopes of the River Hamble providing much of the timber.

Below the fortifications of Mount Wise we can see a variety of shipping, from paddle steamers to ancient naval vessels, which were probably used as training depots.

A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.

Between the 14th and early 19th centuries, Bursledon was an important centre for naval shipbuilding, with the wooded slopes of the River Hamble providing much of the timber.

Beer remains a fishing village, if not quite on the scale of yesteryear, and there are still a number of family-owned boats.

St John's Church stands at the busy crossroads of the High Street and Station Road, which runs towards Fry's (now Cadbury's) chocolate factory at Somerdale.

Before the 1920s bathers had been segregated, with the ladies and small children at the Friars Point end and men at the Nells Point end.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

A quiet village on the outskirts of Woodbridge, maybe, but the sign on the pub is a reminder of the concentration of military bases in East Anglia at the height of the Cold War, with the radar station

Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb.

In Victorian times Hythe was a mere village on the banks of Southampton Water, but it increased in size during the 20th century largely owing to the availability of employment at the nearby oil refinery