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Bridge House, the Post Office Stores and the adjoining houses (centre bottom) follow the curve of the street, named after The Swan Inn.

There followed spells as Flagship, Portsmouth; Guardship in Ordinary at Portsmouth; and as a naval transport during the Crimean War.

This is the junction of George Street, Castle Street and Chapel Street - three titles that follow the 19th-century fashion for objective street names.

Inverkip joined in the burnings, becoming a notorious centre for following the Bible's demand that, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

Here, farmers smartly dressed in three-piece suits follow one of the flocks to market.

The 11th-century castle was extended by the Percy family following its purchase by them in 1309.

The Lifeboat House was built in 1893 at a cost of £1,400; in 1900 the 'John Francis White' was stationed here, followed in 1926 by the 'Dash'. The station closed in 1929.

A stone keep was added in 1170, followed by curtain walls and improved living accommodation.

This central section of Regent Stret follows the line of the old Swallow Street, where London's notorious highwaymen left their horses in livery.

The following year Sir Walter Hungerford regained the castle for his family, the twist being that Sir Walter had been knighted on the field of Bosworth.

Such modernisation has proved successful in helping attract students to its university campus in the decades following the war.

The old road follows the line of the ridge and the beach was once occasionally used to load coal onto boats at high tide from the nearby Trefân Cliff Colliery.

Following a favourable report on the medicinal properties of the waters, a baths and hotel were built, and Leamington was on the spa trail.

These roads followed the exact lines of the present Quebec Street and Front Street, and the village was built around these.

Boots and International Stores had both been long-term tenants of this corner, but in 1976 Boots moved away, and the Leeds Permanent Building Society, followed by the Halifax, moved in.

This view, looking north along the High Street which gently and picturesquely winds along rather than following a straight line, shows the George and Dragon inn on the left with its projecting

The obelisk has been fully restored following a recent lightning strike.

Each chapter can be followed as a self-contained tour.

The cars appearing here in St Peter's Square, where a roundabout now guides traffic, were to be followed by many more as car ownership increased from the 1950s.

By spring of the following year this had become a convalescent hospital for Commonwealth troops, and in August 1916 it was handed over to the Canadian army.

Scots fisher girls followed the herring shoals down to the port in the autumn and worked tirelessly day and night gutting and packing.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the George and Dragon Hotel was a popular stopping-place for cyclists and walkers following the route of the Icknield Way.

Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

The growth of the village followed later. The Connaught Cafe, seen here on the left, is now a private house, but the post office next door remains.