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However, many visitors love the charm of this fishing village with its unspoiled beach, pleasant inns and occasional antique fairs.

Small merchant vessels and privateers were constructed during earlier times for trade and piracy, though in later years many of the shipbuilders concentrated on building and repairing fishing boats.

Although the electric trams disappeared in the latter half of the 20th century, Hastings and St Leonards are still easily and best explored using public transport, a bicycle or shanks's pony.

However, many visitors love the charm of this fishing village with its unspoiled beach, pleasant inns and occasional antique fairs.

The East Gate to the town was demolished in 1800, but the old South Gate on the road from London still stands.

The 1893 School of Science and Art with its ogee turret became a swimming pool, next The Intimate Theatre and finally in the 1980s offices.

Another view of Belfast city, with the Albert Memorial as the focal point. This time, the photographer is in Victoria Street, looking north from near the junction with Chichester Street.

This view was photographed near the northern tip of the island. A ruined 14th-century double-towered castle stands guard over Loch Ranza.

The classic market-town juxtaposition of church and grammar school create an ideal composition.

VIII sold Fountains to Sir Richard Gresham in 1540, and though some seventy years later Sir Stephen Proctor used abbey stone to build Fountains Hall, the ruins are still impressive and preserve the plan of

These small steamers were a feature of both the Scarborough and Bridlington holiday trade; they survived until they were replaced by screw vessels in the 1930s.

York Town - the older part of Camberley - grew on a grid-pattern from the military set-up when the army moved here from Marlow in 1812.

Though there are a number of candles on the pulpit and in the chandelier suspended from the ceiling, it is likely that oil lamps would also have been used at this time.

Through-services to Blackpool began in 1897, and the route was via St Anne's, then along through the sand dunes of Clifton Drive, then to Squires Gate, and on to Station Road.

Tramcar No 23 trundles along Clifton Drive South on its way to Lytham. The paving blocks between the tracks were made from white wood, balastic lava or jarrah.

This turn-of-the-century photograph depicts the Canterbury Quadrangle, famous for its two loggias and two libraries. The quadrangle was almost entirely created by Archbishop Laud.

The village is situated on a loop of the Thames between Oxford and Abingdon. Today, Sandford is a rapidly-expanding riverside village, but in the 1950s, it was a quiet rural community.

The village is situated on a loop of the Thames between Oxford and Abingdon. Today, Sandford is a rapidly-expanding riverside village, but in the 1950s, it was a quiet rural community.

The road in front of the houses if Channel View, and beneath if we can see the railway lines, now only a single main line used primarily to transport coils from the Llanwerm steelworks to the Ebbw Vale

This photograph shows the busy junction at the top of Station Road and Northampton Road, which combine like an arrowhead opposite the Gardens. The Headlands stretches off to the left.

The bath house ended up as part of the Technical College, and acted as a workshop.

The excavated undressed stones can be seen with the tower of the village church just behind the trees.

On the edge of Bodmin Moor, near Liskeard, are several important archaeological sites with Celtic remains. This is St Cleer's Holy Well in the village named after him.

The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn. Today the Daresbury Expressway literally flies overhead.