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A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

His stepmother brought him a cup of wine and, as he drank, one of her servants stabbed the king in the back.

As we turn our back on the Market Square, High Street runs westward to Sheaf Street.

On the corner are No 2 Back Street and 20 Market Street (centre) whre W J Perry offers gifts and cream teas.

Between Preston and Clitheroe lies Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley, backed by Longridge fells.

It is a relief to reach the archaeologically rich and beautiful headland of Brean Down, a carboniferous limestone outlier of the Mendips reaching 300 feet high, from whose bare grassy slopes are

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

With the Mumbles Railway carrying as many as 40,000 passengers on a bank holiday, the village prospered.

Seen here from the south, across the bank of the small stream which flows through the village, the pale sandstone outline of St George's Church stands proudly in its churchyard.

This view is taken from the sandy Roman Bank path looking to Chapel Point.

This handsome crescent dates back to 1826 and was originally intended to be part of a seaside resort known as Anglesey, developed by the Marquis of Anglesey.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients

We are now on the north or Essex bank of the Thames Estuary.

Further along the north bank the Thames passes Chelsea's Cheyne Walk.

The quay to the right belonging to Hockin & Co is now a car park.

On the left, set back and partly hidden by a tree, are the Public Buildings and St John's Hall.

By 1903, however, production had ceased, the population had dropped back to under 6,000, and traders were having a thin time of it - look at the empty streets here.

Next door is the National Provincial Bank branch, with the tailoring and foot- wear stores of Barnes further along the parade of shops.

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

A royd is a northern name for an assart, a practice going back to medieval times when the population of a hamlet cleared land, usually sufficient to make one or two fields, for crops.

Here, a little south of Cookham, is the My Lady Ferry with the lock-keeper's cottage on the far bank.

However, de Clare had the backing of the barons and retook his own castle by force, forcing the Welsh to withdraw.