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In the distance is the domineering 1000-seater Methodist church of 1880; it is by the same architect as the Town Hall, and in a similarly overblown style.

A new church was built in the centre of Upton village at a cost of £728, which in turn was replaced by the present St Mary's in 1868.

The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers.

Lucy's Jetty (bottom right) was designed and built by the eminent geologist Sir Henry Thomas De La Beche in 1820.

Two miles south east of Rotherham,Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

By the 1950s it had also become a guesthouse and tea room (right), and by 2004 the garage element had gone, and it is now a hotel and guesthouse.

The streetscape is dominated by the former Burton's building, an urban interloper of 1939 with its giant Ionic pilasters supporting a heavy cornice.

On the right is St Peter's, the parish church of Blaenavon, built by the ironmasters Hopkins and Hill in 1805.

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

This was the first viaduct to be built in Cornwall, but it was bypassed in 1874 by the Newquay railway, which runs along the valley floor beneath.

This view is flanked on the left by the shop front of Greenwoods chemist's and druggist's shop.

The High Street starts to curve its way around the church, and motorists were no doubt aided by the solid white line in the middle of the road.

Dartford is an ancient market-town which grew into a busy industrial centre on the River Darent, at the point where it was crossed by the Roman Watling Street, parts of which lie buried four feet beneath

The magnificent tithe barn that stands close by the church of St Mary the Virgin dates from the 15th century, and is reckoned to be the second oldest in the country.

It fell into dilapidation after the Dissolution in c1540, and its lower apartment was reduced to a stable; it was restored to its former glory by the corporation in the 19th century.

The exceptions are the Roman Catholic church of St Michael, which was built in 1871 as a Primitive Baptist chapel, and Barton Abbotts, an impressive mid 18th-century house built by the wool stapler William

The less well-off also caught the holiday bug; they were accommodated by the locals, who found they could make a bob of two by creating spare rooms, furnished sparsely but sufficiently well to put up '

The village was flooded badly by the Swale in 1884 - something prophesied by Mother Shipton of Knaresborough.

The street was haunted until World War II by the hurrying footsteps of an uneasy little ghost.

Note the sign on the left to three RAF bases (Bawdsey, Woodbridge and Bentwaters); these were used by the Americans, and have now all closed.

Their origins were in the business of James Stanton, a pianoforte dealer, but by the 1960s they sold musical instruments and sheet music.

By the beginning of the First World War, the shipowners had with a few exceptions withdrawn them from service.

It is now occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library. To the right are the offices of the Paramount Building Society and the Co-operative Insurance Society above the Midland Bank.

It is of unusual and classic appearance; it was designed by the architect Harry Inigo Triggs, who had travelled and studied in Italy.