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The River Wey rises below the great escarpment of Ridgeway Hill.

This broad parade, named after Queen Victoria, runs along the East Cliff in front of Wellington Crescent and the lawns.

Here sun seekers sit or stroll on the promenade. Men's dress is still relatively formal, and the cars speak of some affluence.

William Hancocks of Blakeshall Hall and his wife laid the foundation stone of Cookley church on 20 February 1849.

The building on the right, now demolished, stood on the corner of what is now Vicarage Road, and was the first county library in the town.

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

As we can see from this picture, the concept of clothes for purely leisure activities was unknown to the vast majority of people.

It has been the home of the Bishops of Durham for over 800 years, who in the past were virtually monarchs in their own kingdom.

Luss, on the shores of Loch Lomond, had a thriving cotton mill and slate quarries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Drapery runs parallel to the west side of the Market Place, and was once known as the Glovery. This view was taken from the south beside All Saints' Church.

The Squirrels Inn, on the corner of Squirrel Lane, is virtually unchanged - an attractive ironstone building with a thatched roof.

The village is said to have begun as a result of a shipwreck, when the survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.

The historic core of Charlwood is to the west of the view seen in photograph No 54172, by the medieval parish church of St Nicholas which was restored by William Burgess in 1858.

An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.

Vagrants have wandered the fields and lanes of Britain down the centuries. Sunject to no laws, they were the truly free people of the world.

At the northernmost point away from Hailsham we reach Crowborough, a village that became a health resort in the 1870s when Lord Abergavenny followed the advice of a Dr Prince.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

The 1793 fountain remains, while the Georgian bay windows to the range beyond conceal Bishop Bekynton's mid 15th-century Nova Opera, a range of houses over workshops and shops built along the

East of the town and the Abbey, Glastonbury Tor rises abruptly to 525 feet above sea level from the 'island' above the Moors on which Glastonbury is built.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

Little has changed since picture No 33024 was taken, save for the building of a lifeboat station. St Mary's was rebuilt in the 1830s, replacing the church built by Bishop Thomas Wilson in 1701.

The older part is naturally more interesting, with its quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

The long promenade to the pierhead - about a third of a mile - had continuous seating each side; the tube forming the top rail of the backrest on the south side doubled up as a gas pipe to provide lighting

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.