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Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints' Church has dormer windows with carved bargeboards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.

A Sussex legend recalls how St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, met with the Devil at Mayfield.

The DD registration tells us that the car chugging its way into town from the direction of Nailsworth was local, registered in Gloucestershire.

Frith's photographer moves on to Clapham Common; seeking human interest, he pauses at the Long Pond at the eastern end of the Common, looking from the opposite side to C327009 (pages 108 - 109).

A railway once crossed the road at the bottom of Berry Lane.

A closer view of Henry II's keep at Peveril Castle. It was at Peveril where he accepted the submission of King Malcolm of Scotland in 1157, and he built this splendid stone keep 19 years later.

The boy in the foreground is looking through his telescope, possibly at passing shipping but more probably at Lundy Island.

A vessel passes close to Walton Locks and Warrington Wharf before negotiating the Chester Road Swing Bridge.

The cross here is said to mark the place where St Dubricius was born at some time in the 5th century.

In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

The old hump-backed bridge carried the main road from Cardiff to Swansea over the River Thaw, which at this point is merely a stream meandering to the sea at Cardiff Bay.

Boys stand guard over fishing nets at West Looe. Across the harbour is Buller Quay at East Looe, where three railway trucks can be seen.

At St Helen's Church the corbelled, pinnacled and crocketed tower stands out in more ways than one: it seems curiously at odds, in size and style, with the rest of the church.

Above the village of Rockingham lies the splendid castle, built by William the Conqueror on the site of an ancient fortress and at the heart of the great Rockingham Forest.

At this time the Castle was being used as a Catholic preparatory school for boys.The original castle is thought to have been built by Bertram de Verdun, who also founded the Cistercian abbey at Croxden

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).

The zoo opened at the north end of Regent's Park in 1828, and two years later the Royal Menagerie was added, to be joined by the animals which had formerly been kept at the Tower of London.

The road running beside Newlands Bottom is to the left of the valley at this date, unlike the present road, and is now a bridleway.

The hunt assembling at the front of the Bugle pub, a former coaching inn. Note the sturdy porch, similar to that of its opposite neighbour the Dolphin Hotel.

At Kinver a royal hunting lodge was in existence before 1100, though one was later built at Stourton. Around 1223 Stourton Lodge was fortified and later became known as Stourton Castle.

The churchyard at Busbridge is full of memorials, including one to Gertrude Jekyll, the great gardener, who lived nearby at Munstead.

A large crowd has gathered in Newport Street, part of the Old Town of Swindon. The cause of the excitement is not clear, but it could be a fire at the thatched building round the corner.

Few traffic controls are in evidence at the southern end of the shopping area in about 1960.

Evidently it was a popular place, since a song was published about it in 1918: 'There's good entertainment for man and beast/At this ancient smuggler's nest…' At that time, Benfleet's only public transport