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Set back from the A66, the King's Arms with its stables and courtyard to the rear was once a coaching- house serving travellers on the Penrith to Darlington turnpike, a route linking the

The turning for Glebe Road is by the double-fronted house in the centre, and the National Provincial Bank was later built on the opposite corner.

The main A361 Taunton road loops through the village, with the church in the back lane.

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.

This beautifully-composed view looks back to the town from the breakwater.

Backed by the tall 52-year-old buildings of the Esplanade, the Parade was Rhyl's only real attempt at elegant seaside architecture.

The struggle to drain the fen and maintain the banks of the rivers and lodes was endless.

The chemist next door is now a bank.

Lloyds Bank (centre right) is now Littleham Post Office, and E Prior the newsagent's (right) is now a tropical fish shop.

Behind the horse and carriage is the old Yorkshire Penny Bank (1895).

Its banks are laid out for parks and walks; they are very popular for walking, and are a-throng on a sunny summer or winter weekend.

The Midland Bank with its Ionic half-columns was demolished in the 1970s; the replacement building is now a pub called The Banker's Draft.

This 'Happy Days' wagonette or country-style horse bus, harking back to transport in earlier days, is taking a party on a jaunt on a sunny day.

The road sweeps past the Lansdowne Arms Hotel and, before the A4 road widening, it curved gently up the High Street past imposing shops and banks.

At this date Queen Victoria's statue can still be seen (just visible, centre left); and between the bank and the Queen's Hotel the narrow gabled building with the big arched window is the

On the opposite side are the opticians, then the baker and Lloyds Bank.

He made a collection of all the local words in his area, and thereby saved for posterity words now long since out of use – words going back to our Viking heritage.

I recall leaving my school cap on one of them one morning and racing back to get it!

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

Much of the village lies on the north bank of the Thames, in the vicinity of the Henley road.

Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.