Hallgate from Market Street, Wigan. (Photograph, by Trevor Smith of Smith's Bookshop, from the wiganworld website.)

Hallgate from Market Street, Wigan. (Photograph, by Trevor Smith of Smith's Bookshop, from the wiganworld website.)

Market Place from Standishgate, Wigan, in 1981 or 1982. The entrance to Makinson Arcade can be seen. (Photograph, by Stuart, from the website of wiganworld.)

York

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Alleyway in Ledbury, Herefordshire

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Henry Tudor Inn, Shrewsbury, in the beautiful county of Shropshire, one of the finest in England.

A beautiful photograph of snowdrops, from the same county as that fine writer on country matters & of short stories, H.E. Bates. (Image of "Through The Woods" from the Little Toller website.)

Fine photographs, the first one really does justice to the height of the summit of Grasmoor, which can be obscured when looked at from near Crummock Water.

In some ways York looks as if it's a life-size version of a model miniature village—such as Babbacombe, near Torquay, in Devon—but one made to replicate the dimensions and characteristics, as far as those can be known, of a medieval city.

Byram Arcade, Huddersfield

St Bartholomew's Gatehouse, London

Geoffrey Shryhane on the jockey scales in Wigan's Market Arcade wigantoday.net/news/geoffrey-….

Abbot Reginald's Gateway, Evesham

A chap called Ernie changed his name to Norman, because he wanted to go from wise to wisdom.

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A traffic jam along Market Street, Wigan in 1970. (Photograph and information from the Wigan Today website.)

Market Place, Wigan, circa 1969. (Photograph by f.d. from wiganworld.)

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