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This was Winchelsea's north east gate and lay by the banks of the River Brede (hence the name).

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.

Road access between the seashore cottages of old Saltburn and the new town required a steep incline, which has been the scene of some spectacular runaway vehicle crashes.

The railway line was dismantled soon after this photograph was taken and you can no longer see the river as the bank is totally overgrown with trees.

Exeter was the furthest west that the Romans ventured.

Cinema in 1960 was still a popular form of entertainment, though television and the opportunities opened up by private car ownership were both beginning to make inroads.

The railway line was dismantled soon after this photograph was taken and you can no longer see the river as the bank is totally overgrown with trees.

Heading north-east we come to Wisbech St Mary, which is built alongside the New River, which takes the water of the Nene to the huge pumping station at Denver Sluice.

THE BANK HOUSE AND MOTEL c1965.

Cinema in 1960 was still a popular form of entertainment, though television and the opportunities opened up by private car ownership were both beginning to make inroads.

Clacton-on-Sea was founded as a seaside resort in 1871—the year that the Bank Holiday Act was passed.This view shows the ever popular bandstand and the pier, built in 1873 and lengthened in the

In 1908, the view of the town looking back under the bridge was unobstructed.

This village lies just to the north of Market Weighton.

Worcester has always had a very close relationship with the River Severn, from early times when the first community grew up around an ancient ford.

It is market day, and a breezy one by the look of it, with flowery dresses much in evidence.

Grassington was at one time a centre for lead mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, athough there was still some quarrying in the locality.

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and

Along the street on the left stand St Stephen's Institute and the village school; beyond, on Ralph's Wife's Lane, is the church of St Stephen in the Banks.

Kingsgate Castle was built in about 1860 close to the sea cliff's edge and the North Foreland itself.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

Further downhill, at Fiveways, the road on the right is Fosse Lane.

Overton is the home of the famous paper mill that supplies paper for Bank of England notes.

Tamar barges, such as the one moored here at the quay, were once a common sight on the Tamar and the Tavy.

Opposite the Mansion House is the Bank of England, a single-storey monolithic edifice, designed in 1734 by George Sampson.