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Here we see a busy scene, with many hire boats waiting to be refuelled at the pump and taken out into the river.

This photograph, taken 15 years after B258003 (p20-21), shows the new shop masthead on Boots. The range to the right of the Post Office has been rebuilt as Lipton House.

Three children, who have possibly been out gathering some of the autumnal hedgerow harvest in this bountiful part of the country, stand at one side of the sunken lane.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

The fishermen are standing on 'Little Pier'. We are looking upstream at half tide towards West Looe on the far side of the harbour.

Forty years ago it was possible to relax over a pint at the Robin Hood and the New Inn (centre and right). Since this picture, both the war memorial and the New Inn have gone.

This Anglican church was built at a cost of £3,000 in the early 1860s. Sir George Elliott, who funded most of the cost, held a sumptuous banquet to mark its opening.

Lying at the foot of wooded limestone slopes to the east of Cringlebarrow, these rendered stone cottages, with pronounced dripstones protecting their windows and doorways from the rain, are typical of

The harbour was at that time still the preserve of local fishermen, but today the area is monopolised by pleasure craft and luxury yachts.

Clydach is a small village on the road from Brecon to Swansea. The area has been mined for coal for at least 300 years.

The steamer 'Daisy' calls at Lambeth Pier, which is built on to the new riverside Lambeth Palace Road. Behind is Lambeth Palace, with St Mary's Church to the right.

He wrote of 'my landlady here at Selborne, who, while I am writing my notes, is getting me a rasher of bacon, and has already covered the table with a nice clean cloth.'

This was part of the Victoria University, which was constituted in 1880, the other colleges being at Manchester and Liverpool.The colleges went their separate ways in 1904, each becoming an independent

This bridge, like the one at Bewdley, was designed by Thomas Telford; it replaced an old ferry and ford. It is a single-span iron bridge.

At this time Sheringham was developing into a popular seaside resort which would rival Cromer, though the inclination of the townsfolk was to ensure that it retained its charm.

Fortunately, there is no traffic as the farmer herds his small herd of cows in the middle of the road at the bottom of Town Hill beside the Peterville Inn.

Cockermouth is situated where the River Cocker joins the River Derwent on its way to the Irish Sea at Workington.

Greasbrough was once described as a pleasant village 'situated on a delightful eminence'; by the early 19th century it was a farming and mining community of over 1000.

Here we see the south Lakeland village from the hill of Charity High, just outside the village.

This area of the North Devon coast has acres of sandhills. These, at Saunton, were riddled with tiny beach chalets. Many survived until relatively recent times.

The 15th-century bridge had not been widened when this view was taken. The building at the far end - The Royal Hotel - is still in business, although the extensive quays to the left are now derelict.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

It was built after the Normans demolished an original Saxon church in 1095.

The cabin at the top of Clare House pier still occupies its site; however, it was demolished when the promenade was constructed.