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Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

The original house, owned by the Napier family, burnt down in 1742, and the wealthy Humphrey Sturt, who had married an heiress, inherited the estate in 1765.

This peaceful view of the old High Street looks down the hill to the Harrow Inn at the bottom.

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

The theatre burned down in 1926; plays then had to be performed in a local cinema.

It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

Parts of it date from the 1400s, and the three bells are said to have come from the Abbey after it was pulled down.

This view looks down Warren Close from the main Aylesbury Road, the chapel on the left just out of view.

Moving down the lane away from the green there is a row of architecturally more mixed houses, some 1840s Estate houses, others older before the Estate went into picturesque Tudor mode.

This was constructed in the early 19th century by Walter May so that he could enjoy a prospect of the sea, however the South Downs prevented his dream from being realised.

In November the chancellor slashed purchase tax on new cars from 45 per cent down to 25 per cent. The following year car sales topped the million mark for the first time at 1,030,694 vehicles.

Further down the street, we see a wonderfully-posed assortment of turn-of-the-century trades - a delivery boy in his striped apron, someone pushing a cart with a water barrel, and the village postman.

Sand yachts were large four-wheeled vehicles mounting a yacht rig and capable of tearing up and down the beach at high speed.

Bath Lane off East Street, originally called Bathing House Lane, is so named because it used to lead down to a bathing house that was located by the side of the creek.

The film 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills was filmed in and around Downham village.

The church closed down in 1904, and was demolished in 1906.

The two Llanwenarths were joined by a rope ferry, which closed down in 1951. From the churchyard there is a magnificent view of the Blorenge mountain.

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

The camera looks at the mundane, suburban face of the village as Woodgate drops down to Cross Green.

The canal's tub-boats were fitted with wheels so that they could travel up or down the inclines by means of cables; it was a method that saved an absolute fortune on building locks, and represented