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The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

This idyllic picture of the Brixham fishing fleet gives some idea of just how much the fishing industry dominated the town for hundreds of years.

Old Laleham stands back from the reaches of the Thames, and the early boating fraternity used to enjoy catching glimpses of it from the water.

Known today for its massive castle (begun in 1285), one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly

This view shows the alteration of the window and roofline of the central porch. The palace is Maidstone's oldest building, originally Norman, but substantially rebuilt in the 14th century.

The name of this inn is the Hero, after the most famous inhabitant of the Burnhams: Horatio Nelson, born in the rectory of nearby Burnham Thorpe, and later to become England's greatest admiral, and victor

Eype village is a quarter of a mile inland from the seashore, in a combe below the rolling Dorset downlands.

Lower Bentham stands 15 miles east of Lancaster on the slopes of the Pennines.

Middlesmoor is one of the highest villages in Nidderdale, enjoying fine views down the dale, especially from the churchyard of St Chad's parish church.

The isolated outlier of Latrigg (1,203 ft) is an easy stroll from Keswick; it gives a grandstand view of the 'capital' of the northern Lakes.

On the top of the hill are the remains of Oldbury Castle (an Iron Age fort) and the striking Lansdowne Monument erected in 1845 to the memory of an ancestor of a local landowner.

Fortunately this period was also to see the devel- opment of an interest in industrial archaeology, and efforts were made to save not only the bridge but other sites of interest locally.

He was the mighty Fish Lizard, or Icthyosaurus. Whatever caused his death can only be guessed at. But his corpse was eventually covered and compressed by mud and sand.

Manor Park Road runs along the east side of Manor Park. This view is taken a little way north of its junction with Carshalton Road.

The village of Northchapel, which is situated 5 miles north of Petworth, was formerly a chapelry of Petworth, and only became a parish in its own right after an Act of Parliament in 1693.

Washington, at the crossroads of two ancient routes, lies at the northern head of a 'wind gap' in the undulating chalk downland of high ridges and dry valleys.

This famous landmark situated at 22a Clifton Drive has always had this name because of its pure white exterior.

A little out of shot is the church of St Mary, which has an unusual gravestone in memory of Phillis Humphreys, who died at the age of 58 in 1763.

The hounds cluster around the door of this venerable white stuccoed landmark, which has been an inn since 1388.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Above the modern shopfronts and advertising signs, the picturesque assortment of buildings bear testimony to the city's rich history.

An Edwardian, steeply-gabled terrace of shops and flats overlooks the dignified stone island War Memorial of 1923, with its stepped approach.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.