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This arrangement worked quite well for minor roads or tracks, but major roads would be cut up by the narrow (Petersfield Museum) This is the earliest known photograph of Petersfield.

Newnham Pool was a good amenity in its day, but its use was severely restricted by the climate, and the decision was taken to build an indoor pool as soon as funds became available.

Longhole is the name given to a curiously-shaped channel, bordered by the north-easterly arm of the North Breakwater, which leads inland towards the central pier.

The newspaper headline by the parked car reads 'Air Passenger Service in England.'

The scene is similar today, but most properties are now used by the university.

This waterway was one of the last to be dug, and had a short commercial life because of successful poaching of its business by the railways.

The shop on the right is occupied by Finlay's shoe shop, as is attested by the display outside — today it is the HSBC Bank.

There are also two seats donated by the squadron survivors.

The bus queue to Swindon is forming by the two lime trees outside Ashman's butchers shop, today a private house.

The baptistry also has a working model of the astronomical clock, made by the Wimborne clockmakers William and Ralph Kerridge in 1916.

In the late 19th century it was obviously just a narrow rough track, dominated by the bulk of Red Screes to the left, with Caudale Moor rising above the lonely Kirkstone Inn, just visible ahead.

The present stone bridge replaced earlier ones (the first built in timber by the energetic Bishop Alexander in the 12th century); it dates from 1775, with footways and cast iron railings added in 1848

Built in 1814, it ceased working in 1893, when the sails were taken off.There was a bakery by the mill house.The mill is now being restored by its owner.

This end of the church is in three parts, as we can tell by the three apex roofs.

Only the squat, battlemented tower is medieval, a 15th-century one paid for by the Pelham family of Halland.

At the end the vista across Hare Lane is closed by the 1930s Westminster Bank, now a travel agency, and trees.

The town has a superb situation on the chalk ridge, with a castle south of the High Street; the ridge is cut through by the River Wey.

This was taken not long after the restoration of the interior of the church by the Reverend Bell.

Common oak, silver birch, sweet chestnut and buckthorn, loved by the Brimstone butterfly, abound in Wyre Forest, along with Norway spruce.

The misgivings of many were voiced in a public inquiry and the building was subsequently sold by the Council for £1.00, and the result has given new life to this attractive Georgian building.

By the 1950s the Market Place had become a car park and the statue had gone.

'Great Western' was built in 1867 by Simons & Co, Renfrew, for the Milford-Cork service operated by Ford & Jackson, but was taken over by the GWR in 1872.

Originally the first of the Cinque Ports, its Saxon harbour had silted up by the late 14th century, ending its role as the chief place of embarkation for the Continent and as England's premier naval

Dancing Ledge, with the limestone downland of Spyway Farm, was bought by the National Trust in 1993.