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In days gone by there was a gate across the road at this point which barred the way to passers-by, who could only proceed on payment of a toll.

A real coach party - that is, a party using a coach and horses - arrives at the stable block at Haddon Hall. The bowler-hatted gentlemen alight to face the climb up to the house.

18th-century cottages in Main Street at West Lulworth, looking westwards from the wide triangle of highway and grass beside the Castle Inn.

This old watermill at Bosham has changed a little since this photograph was taken in the early years of the 20th century.

After crossing the ancient causeway known as the King's Highway (which runs from Belsars Hill at Willingham to Aldreth) we reach the green at Haddenham and the road to Ely.

At this time, Felixstowe was a genteel seaside resort, with steamers pulling up at the pier with passengers from Great Yarmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton, and even London.

There is still a stocks and whipping post at Havering-atte-Bower, and there has been since at least the 17th century, when they were destroyed by a mob.

The plaque in the centre of Hazelwood Terrace bears the date 1889. The house at the right has a sign for W A Tattersall, a coal merchant.

Here we see the pack-horse bridge at Hurst Green. The newer road bridge, built in 1826, is behind it. Clitheroe and Great Mitton are to the right, and Stoneyhurst to the left.

At this time these shops would close at noon on Saturday, and Sunday opening was unheard of.

Launched on 11 April 1878, the Clyde paddler 'Columba' was the last vessel built for David Hutchinson & Co; the firm changed its name to David Macbrayne the following year.

This is Thomas Telford's iron bridge, crossing the River Severn at its junction with the River Avon.

At first glance, Church Houses seem to be typical farm labourers` cottages next door to the church, but a closer look at the left- hand group suggests that once this was a single substantial

This is an unusual but very attractive station at the end of the Northern Line, designed by Stanley Heaps in 1924; at the time he was architect to the London Underground Electric Railways.

This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.

The departure of an excursion steamer attracts the attention of several promenaders. At this time the longest pier in the country was at Southport, but in 1897 it was eclipsed by the pier at Southend.

It was at the northern end of High Street that the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth was declared king in 1685.

A hard way to make a living at this time was ferrying holidaymakers to and from pleasure boats out in the bay.

The pier was considerably shorter in length than those at Blackpool, but somewhat similar in design to the one at Aberystwyth.

Prestatyn's station on the Chester and Holyhead section of the L & NWR meant that it became increasingly popular with holidaymakers, especially with those from the Liverpool area.

Dogs are at play in this photograph of a peaceful West Sussex village.

There are plenty of horse-drawn carts in this view looking east. Maplesden is still running his printing works at No 1 - although it is no longer a post office - and at No 5 Gatland Bros.

William Ransom, born in 1826 in the house at the north end of Bancroft, studied at Isaac Brown's Quaker Academy at the Triangle, Hitchin.

One of the college's more interesting pupils was Joseph Wright who had begun working at Salt's Mill, Saltaire when he was just seven years old.