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This photograph looks eastwards along East Street from the southern pavement, with the Midland Bank opposite (left).

Few national brands were to be seen on the main street, apart from Lipton's grocery and the Westminster Bank visible in this photograph; the remainder are locally owned and managed businesses.

The earthen banks of several protective blast-barriers still pockmark the site. They were no help, sadly, to the three men who died in an explosion here in 1913.

Opposite is the Central Hotel and Barclays Bank. The White Hart is shown on a town map of 1839 and is likely to be 15th-century in origin.

Looking back towards Boutport Street in 1903, Brook's is still a cafe. It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.

He in his turn was expelled in 1660, and Thomas Wright came back, just for one year, as he died in 1661.

The midships wheel, lying fore and aft, was used to make easier the back-breaking task of hoisting sails.

The Square has many buildings dating back to the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

The Thames barges are moored alongside Bowyer's wharf, built in 1897 for the storage of coal and corn; they were not finally demolished until 1960, after being criticised for many years

Here we see Back Street (left) and the Square (right), with the flamboyant Victorian double shop fronts of the grocers G H Stephens & Company on the corner (centre).

Lavender Cottage dates back to the 15th century. In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

Re-crossing the Trent at Gunthorpe, the route turns back towards Nottingham along the busy A612 to Burton Joyce, where the river sweeps close to the road.

Going back under the railway viaduct, we ascend Toothill Lane to its junction with Leeming Street, which crosses the foreground.

The parade of shops (left) proclaims that a once quiet seaside village is becoming a busy township - we can see Ellwood's, the Midland Bank, a chemist, and a newsagent and tobacconist.

Its prosperity dates back to at least the 13th century, though a village stood on this site long before that. Locals rarely call the place anything but 'Chippy'.

South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.

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.

The annexe sideways to the road has gone, and the house standing back from the road has been replaced by a bungalow. One of the two houses on the right, Highfield View, now has a porch.

Founded in 1609 by Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, as almshouses for twenty-one poor men and ten poor women, it was completed in 1619 in the local sandstone and is set back from the High Street.

The church itself has a Norman south aisle and sits in a delightful churchyard with the backs of timber-framed cottages on one side and the Misbourne in its valley on the other.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career. It was erected five years after the general's death.

Today this area of Cheltenham is pedestrianised, but back in the 1950s traffic negotiated the ornamental roundabout.

Nearly opposite to this inn stands the Globe, another public house, which dates back to at least 1674, and the Red Lion, then an Ushers house, which closed in 1970. It is now offices.