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By Colin J. Seabright

This attention-grabbing choice of photos lines a few of the some ways within which Chesham has replaced and built during the last century. Chesham, a small marketplace city within the valley of the River Chess among the beech-clad Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, has an extended heritage of sunshine craft according to in the community produced uncooked fabrics. Early improvement have been restricted to the ground of the valley, leading to a really lengthy, slender city by which the excessive highway and its continuation was once the single major highway, sporting all neighborhood and any via site visitors. the hot have to accommodate extra via site visitors required drastic remedy; because the slender confines of the valley avoided any pass for town centre, the single answer used to be an internal reduction highway, building of which concerned demolition of a few of the older elements of the city. This little quantity illustrates, via sequences of images of chosen positive factors, how Chesham replaced in the course of the 20th century.

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