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The Jubilee Clock at the junction of Victoria Street and Loch Promenade was presented to the people of Douglas by George Dumbell in 1887.

It was built at the expense of local MP David Chadwick, who also paid for the initial stock of 10,000 books.

In Anglo-Saxon times a church dedicated to St Werburgh stood on part of the site now occupied by the cathedral. St Werburgh was a daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia.

Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

These attractive ivy-clad ruins are not as ancient as they look: they are part of the castle constructed as a folly by Walter May along with his 170 foot high tower.

A large hoarding advertising Fry's Chocolate on the side of the building replaces the signwriting.

How did Stone get its name?

Standing as it does at the southern end of some of the most spectacular scenery in the midlands, the area has been popular with tourists for nearly two hundred years.

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.

In the centre of the picture is St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal parish church, photographed at the time when Dick Sheppard was the vicar.

The Rev Edward Peek, formerly the minister at Rousdon, retired to Lyme Regis, where he turned the stables of Poulett House into what became known as the Peek Memorial Chapel.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'.

According to Eric Parker, scores of visitors to Leith Hill would alight at Holmwood railway station and be taken by horse-drawn brake to the foot of the hill - the rest of the

The village is the highest in Surrey at 750ft above sea level; it is situated on the east side of Leith Hill.

The village stands at the foot of the Hog's Back close to Aldershot, but it is actually in the parish of Guildford.

The pier, one of the few surviving Victorian piers in the country, has recently undergone extensive restoration.

Many of the Morecambe Bay boats had names suggesting that they were bigger vessels, such as the 'Queen Mary' in the foreground -but she predated the Cunarder.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

We are looking back across the Wye to the village. A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate.

ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.

All the local farming families tried to get back to Alderley for Wakes week in the third week of August.

Most written material about Romsey's mills seems to relate to problems in obtaining that most important item — water. Romsey's mills depended on the river Test and its branches for their power.