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Doorzoek alles van Heritage ImagesPolperro, Cornwall, c1955. The fishing village of Polperro is a noted tourist destination, particularly in the summer months, for its idyllic appearance with tightly-packed ancient fishermen's houses which survive almost untouched, its quaint harbour and attractive coastline
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St Andrews Castle, Fife, Scotland, c1955. The castle, built c1200, sits on a rocky promontory overlooking the North Sea
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Perthshire, Scotland, c1955. View in the Scottish Highlands: house with tulips
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St Briavel's Castle, Forest of Dean, c1955. Ceremony of cheese-rolling - play on castle walls. The St Briavels Bread and Cheese Dole (or Scramble) tradition is said to date back to the 12th century. Each year on Whit Sunday bread and cheese is thrown from the wall of the castle to local 'Dole…
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Start Bay, Devon, c1955. The South West Coast Path is above much of the bay which is on the English Channel. Red and white Valerian in the foreground
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Brixham, Devon, c1955. Town built around a natural harbour, which in addition to leisure craft, provides anchorage for what is now one of England's largest remaining commercial fishing fleets. View showing the Strand Baker cafe; Kaye's yacht supplies, ironmonger and plumber; the Ship cafe; and the…
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Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond, Scotland, c1955. Popular leisure destination featured in the song "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". The loch is surrounded by hills including Ben Lomond on the eastern shore, which is 973.7 metres (3,195 feet) in height, and the most southerly of the Scottish Munro peaks
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The Palladian bridge and Pantheon, Stourhead Park, Wiltshire, c1955. The gardens were designed by Henry Hoare II and laid out between 1741 and 1780 in a classical 18th-century design set around a large lake, achieved by damming a small stream
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Corfe Castle, Dorset, c1955. View of the village and the ruins of the castle, destroyed by Parliamentarian forces in 1646 after its resistance to their siege during the English Civil War
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Port Isaac, Cornwall, c1955. Small fishing village on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall. From 2004 to 2022, the village served as the backdrop to the ITV television series "Doc Martin". It is also home to the sea-shanty singing group Fisherman's Friends
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Tutti Men claiming a kiss, Hocktide Festival, Hungerford, Berkshire, c1955. Hocktide or Tutti Day is an ancient annual tradition held on the second Tuesday after Easter. The event is associated with the town's great patron, John of Gaunt. Its origins are thought to lie in celebrations following…
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Bodiam Castle, Sussex, c1955. 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge, built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War
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Porlock, Somerset, c1955. The "person on business from Porlock" was an apocryphal unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but…
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Custom House, Dublin, Ireland, c1955. Designed by James Gandon, the Custom House is one of Dublin's finest examples of Georgian architecture. The interior of the building was destroyed by fire in an IRA attack in 1921 during the Irish Civil War
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Caernarvon, Wales, c1955. Caernarfonshire, previously spelled Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire, was one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolition in 1974. It was largely split between the three districts of Aberconwy, Arfon and Dwyfor of Gwynedd (along with…
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Tenby Harbour, Pembrokeshire, c1955. Seaside town in south west Wales
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The Pool and Hugh Town from Garrison Hill, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, c1955. In the centre is the Atlantic Hotel
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Earl Haig's burial place, Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland, c1955. Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861-1928) was a senior British commander during WWI
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Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, c1955. The pier at Portree harbour was designed by Thomas Telford
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Students at work, training day, Royal School of Needlework, c1955. The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) in London is a hand embroidery school, founded as the School of Art Needlework in 1872. 'The founding principles of the RSN were two-fold: to revive a beautiful art which had fallen into disuse…
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Speech House Hotel, Forest of Dean, c1955. Originally constructed as a hunting lodge for Charles II in 1682. It hosts the "Court of the Speech", a sort of parliament for the Verderers and Free Miners managing the forest, game, and mineral resources of the area. In about 1840, Speech House began to…
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Gulls and boats in Brixham Harbour, Devon, c1955. Town built around a natural harbour, which in addition to leisure craft, provides anchorage for what is now one of England's largest remaining commercial fishing fleets
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Moreton Old Hall, Cheshire, c1955. Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a moated half-timbered manor house begun c1504-1508 and built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton. It has been described as "a feast of medieval carpentry"
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Falls of Leny, Trossachs, Scotland, c1955
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Gateway to the Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, c1955. View through the North Gate or High Street Gate in the old city walls
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Fishermen, Cornwall, c1955
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Cotehele Cornwall, c1955. Cotehele, in Calstock, is a medieval granite and slate-stone manor house with Tudor additions. It was built by the Edgecumbe family in 1485 after the original Manor House was pulled down. There are a number of formal gardens and a richly planted area in the valley;…
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Lock on the River Kennet at Newbury, Berkshire, c1955. Newbury Lock seen from downstream
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The beach at Bognor, Sussex, c1955. Bognor was developed as a seaside resort by Sir Richard Hotham in the late 18th century on what was a sand and gravel, undeveloped coastline. It has been claimed that Hotham and his new resort are portrayed in Jane Austen's unfinished novel "Sanditon". The resort…
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The Old House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, c1955. Timber-framed building dating from the late 15th century
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Mountains of Mourne, Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland, c1955. The Mourne Mountains are a predominantly granite mountain range in the south-east of Northern Ireland. They include the highest mountain in all of Ulster, Slieve Donard at 850 metres (2,790 feet). The Mournes are designated an…
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Market Hall, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, c1955. Arched hall built in 1627 to provide shelter to traders, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire
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Lydstep Haven, Pembrokeshire, c1955. Lydstep in south Wales was known in ancient times as Lis Castell. A number of ancient artefacts have been recovered from the submerged forest near Lydstep Haven, while peat deposits are periodically exposed showing human and animal footprints radiocarbon dated…
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Daffodils, Isles of Scilly, c1955
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Pipers sounding 'The Retreat', Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, c1955
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The Cuillins from Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, c1955. The Cuillin is a range of mostly jagged rocky mountains. The main Cuillin ridge, a national scenic area, is also called the Black Cuillin
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Evening class in design, Royal School of Needlework, c1955. The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) in London is a hand embroidery school, founded as the School of Art Needlework in 1872. 'The founding principles of the RSN were two-fold: to revive a beautiful art which had fallen into disuse and,…
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Roman iron ore workings, Forest of Dean, c1955
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The Sound, Royal Citadel, and Mount Edgecumbe, Plymouth, Devon, c1955. View from Smeaton's Tower. The Cattewater is a stretch of water where the mouth of the river Plym merges with Plymouth Sound
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Clovelly, North Devon, c1955. Privately owned harbour and fishing village. The settlement and surrounding land belongs to the Hamlyn family, who have managed the village since 1738
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