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This picture, taken from the walkway of the bridge, gives us a panoramic view of the Alexandra Docks and the residential area of Pillgwenly.

The Sessions House on William Brown Street is pictured here just three years after it opened. Designed by F & G Holme, its original purpose has now been forgotten.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

Reculver is a popular little seaside town on the coast between the Thanet resorts and Herne Bay. There was once a Roman Saxon Shore Fort here.

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Sixty years after No 24920 was taken, the proliferation of the motor vehicle occupying the kerbs is noticeable.

Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.

Inside the church there is a marble memorial to the life of Colonel Richard Nicolls, who captured the Dutch Colonial city of New Amsterdam on behalf of the English Crown - and then renamed it New York

Lindale is close to the River Winster, the old Lancashire and Westmorland border. John Wilkinson, the ironmaster, is buried in the churchyard in an unmarked grave; it was his fifth burial.

Frith's photographer originally titled this as 'The Walk', which was the old Lyme name for the upper length of Marine Parade long into the 20th century.

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

The Welsh name for Bridgend is 'Yr Hen Bont'.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Small fish rejected by Icelanders were brought to Teignmouth in Pike Ward`s boat Elise. In 1900, 100 tons were brought in for local consumption.

The chemist's (left) became Holman, Ham & Company. Shop signs beyond the Three Cups Hotel include those of a Co-op store, the Tudor Cafe, and the Nook.

The three-storey Royal Lion Hotel (left) incorporates a Tudor building. King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, spent a night here during a teenage walking tour in September 1856.

Shops here have been kept by the same families for years, and they still have a reputation for quality and service.

In April 1956, Commander Lionel Crabb, Britain's finest frogman, disappeared whilst diving at Stokes Bay, Gosport. On 17 April, Mr Crabb had stayed overnight at the Sallyport Hotel in Old Portsmouth.