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Hull, who was the squire of nearby Leith Hill Place, was buried upside down beneath the tower after his death in 1772.

East Cliff is a popular spot of rough grassland where the downs meet the sea. The beach could be reached by a series of steps known as 'The Hundred Steps'.

This photograph looks down the High Street towards Salutation Square. Note the Ever Ready delivery van in the centre of the picture and the branch of Hepworths on the right.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years. The stone was used extensively for the arcades of many Devon churches.

We are looking down on the Pot Market, where pots and pans were once bought and sold, and along Queen Street, the main shopping street of this small town on the White Peak plateau.

This would have come from the local chalk downs, and the stone for the windows, tracery and doorways perhaps came from Bentley, some five miles to the south.

In front of the abbey, and partly hidden by a tree, is St Margaret's Church, which was then the parish church of 10 Downing Street.

An evocative view of old Corringham, down on the flat land close to the Thames and now a close neighbour to the estates of Thurrock and the Thames-side oil storage depots.

It was completed in 1840 after one notable delay - the workers downed tools to join a Chartist march as it passed by on its way to the Westgate Hotel.

The Plough Inn was demolished to allow for the extension of the graveyard, leaving the New Inn a few yards further down towards the sea.

Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill. It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

The western side was then demolished and rebuilt, but it was another seven years before the eastern side was pulled down to give the road the width which exists today.

Horses pulling the narrowboats would have climbed up the bridge on the right and down on the left, thus changing from one side of the canal to the other at this point.

This picture shifts the scene down to the beach; we are looking east to the castle and the chalk cliffs.

The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

Immaculately kept lawns sweep down to the peaceful River Cam. The scene is dominated by the breathtaking Perpendicular splendour of King's College Chapel.

On the day Queen Victoria died, the postmistress at Lee`s old post office was taking down a telegram announcing the Queen`s death when she was struck by lightning in the left eye and blinded

On the right is the entrance to the steps down to the sandy beach of Kingsgate

Barges plied up and down the River Wharfe delivering to the breweries. In the distance is the 'Virgin Viaduct'.

Immaculately kept lawns sweep down to the peaceful River Cam. The scene is dominated by the breathtaking Perpendicular splendour of King's College Chapel.

The palace is thought to have been burnt down accidentally in 1746 by some of General Hawley's troops.

The centre of the view is dominated, like churchyards up and down the country, by a yew tree.

Further down, into High Street, most buildings survive, with the attractively treed former cattle market on the left, whose trees were originally planted in 1887 as an avenue to the Hospital