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On the Wraysbury bank, near to where we see the boathouse of W Hanes and Sons, there once was a wharf where iron ore was landed for refining at a local mill before being taken to London.

The timbered buiding on the left, occupied at the time by Barclays Bank, was originally built with plastered upper walls and gabels, later exposed to give the building a mock Tudor flavour.

The banks of this river tower over most of the buildings in the village, such is the shrinkage of the local peat landscape.

Whenever the Chester Road and Northwich Road swing-bridges are opened to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington grinds to a halt; traffic tails back for hundreds of yards either

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

Cocks House, in the distance at the junction with Back Street, is unchanged.

Photographed in the year it was built, this church had seating for 800 people, and a commodious schoolroom at the back.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

Although the foundations of the church date back to the 13th century, the flint tower was only built in the 16th century.

In 1907, a room at the Hop Pole cost 4s a night, and dinner would set you back 3s 6d.

We are looking back towards the castle, now Kimbolton School.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

The doors at the back of the sentry boxes have already been opened, and the new guard is in the yard. The buildiing, the oldest purpose-built barracks in England, was completed in 1759.

Part of the church dates back to around 1400, though there have been a great many later additions. Moseley, a mere two miles south of Birmingham, has now become a suburb of that great city.

Traffic levels are almost back to those of the 1950s. Little has changed, except that the brewery beyond the Bull Inn is now offices and housing.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

The church, noted for its low battlemented 15th-century tower, dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

I wonder how the two children are to get their little boat back without wading into the water!

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.