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As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

The church is now flanked by different buildings: Rubie's on the left made way in 1928 for the rather good stone-clad neo-Georgian Post Office with its circular porch.

Emmanuel College was originally the site of a Dominican friary. After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.

The 1st Eastern General Hospital was set up in Nevile's Court in Trinity College at the beginning of World War 1, with beds placed around the cloisters.

There is still a petrol station on this site at Brockworth roundabout, though the wartime Nissen hut we see here is long gone.

This road junction is just to the south of the centre of Wellington, and sits astride the London to Holyhead road that was built by Thomas Telford in the early 1800s.

The village children crossed these fields each day to go to the Elementary School, which was built in 1878.

By the middle 1930s the Borough Council had outgrown the offices at the Town Hall, and departments were housed in various buildings around the town.

The clear, shallow and gently-flowing waters of the River Allen, fed by the natural chalk reservoirs of Cranborne Chase, make it an ideal habitat for rushes, and commercial rush-cutting flourished here

Little trace of the railway remains today (Broadstone Leisure Centre stands on much of it), but this was once a busy junction, where the Bournemouth main branch crossed the London, Southampton

This view shows facing cottges built at Canford Magna from 1870-72. By 1955, one cottage was the post office, with a separate telephone kiosk outside.

The trams have given way to buses and the horse-drawn vehicles to motorcars, and hatless heads are now commonplace.

A temporary bridge was erected from a ledge below the Store or Detachment Shelter on the left to Castle Hill, which allowed the passage of building materials and labourers from mainland to

The single-storey extension to the pub also dates from 1921, when Hiskey Golding was the landlord. Where the Austin Sevens are parked is now a beer garden.

This triangular Bath stone fountain stands at the junction of Silver Street, Vicarage Street and Church Street; it was erected in 1783.

Rows of black cars line the sides of the road. Today there are estate agents, an optometrist and a surgery here; the surgery dates from 1937 when Dr Cheyne opened it in his Havant Road home.

The Swan Inn is south of Lyndhurst. A turning to the A35 is opposite it, and here we find Leominstead Lakes, where trout fishing is available daily.

The Norman tower and later spire of St Michael's parish church watches over the busy Yorkersgate.

We are looking out across the deal and timber yards to the cathedral and downtown Bristol. Perched high on its hill in the background at left is the tower erected to commemorate John Cabot's voyage.

From the 1880s to the mid-1930s, Sharpness was the third largest port in the UK for the importing of timber, including pine and spruce from Canada and the Baltic and teak from Burma.

Prominent on this main road was Rushton's poultry shop on the left. At Christmas especially, rows of pheasants, rabbits and hares hung here, along with other game, poultry and fish.

There has been an inn here since at least 1680; it became a coaching inn in about 1750.

It stands 76ft high and is a notable Clyde estuary landmark, looking across to the light on the Gantock rocks.

One much-loved inhabitant was the actress Peg Woffington, who died here at the age of 39.