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Here we have a good view of the tram track near Palm Court at the Cavendish Road stop on the high cliffs (a lift was available to convey visitors to the shore and the Promenade).

In the 1500s and 1600s the Dychfield family that lived here were strong Roman Catholics and refused to attend the Protestant services at their local parish church at Farnworth.

Seen here are some of over a thousand steam and sail drifters which operated out of Gorleston harbour during the herring season at the turn of the century.

There can be few people in Britain who have not seen a photograph of this scene at some time or other, consciously or not.

Healing the sick is the theme of this window in the minster's north-west corner, formerly the Consistory Court.

Like Neston, Parkgate saw increasing trade as a port once the River Dee around Chester began to silt up.

Jack Rattenbury, the 'Rob Roy of the West', was born at Beer in 1778 and experienced a series of adventures at sea before settling down to a life of smuggling along this wild and lonely

Bridport haven, an estuary under East Cliff, became Bridport Harbour as we know it in the 18th century, with the final layout taking shape in 1824.

Walkern was the home of Joan Wenham, one of the last witches to be prosecuted in England. There are many accounts of the case, but one interesting version says that it hinged on her ability to fly.

An Usher's Brewery lorry is making a delivery to the Railway House Hotel, which advertises Usher's ales.

The Market Tavern, far left, now forms the entrance to the White Hart Yard. The pub doors were rescued after demolition, and are preserved in the town's museum.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

Chorleywood is on the south side of the Chess valley. Chorleywood Common survived an attempt at enclosure and we see it here in its late 19th-century gorse-covered state.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

He came to Haywards Heath in 1920, and established his practice at Boltro Chambers - this was just a stone's throw from the railway station.

The Black Rock had long been a hazard to navigation for ships entering or leaving Liverpool.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

Heading north-west roughly parallel to the River Witham, we reach two small towns on either side of the River Bain, which meets the Witham a mile away at Dogdyke.

River outings on the Thames were popular in Victorian times. Jerome K Jerome describes a classic journey in his 'Thee Men in a Boat'.

In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.

St Mary's is another restored Norman church. Dating from around 1200, additions were made in the 1400s; a transept was demolished at that time. Restorations were made by John Colson in 1862.

The Floating Bridge was for many the only way to cross the river at this point. This 1950s photograph somehow captures the spirit of that austere period following the war.

There were two towers, one at Fowey, and this one at Polruan, and it was between these that the chain was stretched.

This very rare photograph, taken around 1876, is captioned the Palm House, but it shows what was usually known as the Great Conservatory.