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This lovely view was taken just a few miles north of Dunsop Bridge.We can see the tiny River Brennand running down to join the Whitendale River to make the River Dunsop, which gives the town its

Both the post office, run by H J Harding when the photograph was taken, and the 16th-century Eagle public house, are still open for business.

The half-timbered frontage of the George and Dragon inn (on the left of the photograph) dates from 1515.

On the right is the Haymarket Theatre facing down Charles II Street, where His Majesty's Theatre stands on the corner; in 1952, with the accession of Elizzabeth II, the theatre became Her Majesty's.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

The Reindeer Inn on the left was originally a house called The Running Deer in 1740, owned by the Dunster family.

There is not much traffic - a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger - in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

There is not much traffic other than a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

A crowded rowing boat makes its way to the muddy shore.

Corner Cottage, jutting from the end, is a century older, and has now been refurbished.

E A Hodges, the long-established, family-run stationery and news store, remained a well-known presence in town at this time.

There is a somewhat run-down look in this view.

Bilsborrow lies between Lancaster and Preston on the traffic-laden A6 road.

The earliest ferries were little more than two hulls with a platform suspended between them, and the crossing could take some time owing to the strong tides that run in the Tamar.

This small south Norfolk village runs along a single street.

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water, and the village church is a charming medieval survival.

This narrow back street, running parallel to the High Street, has changed a little.

This little store and village post office is well remembered for being run for many years by the Moody family.

To save time, an off-the-shelf Laird's design was chosen; the three-ship deal cost the GWR £100,000.

Old Hill's official name is St Thomas Hill, and it was once used as a toboggan run when there was snow on the ground — rather a hair-raising ride!

This main street runs parallel to the shore, and displays many of the late 19th-century shops that accompanied its development as a resort during that period.