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It was only 10 ft long, ran on 10 inch wheels, and came with front-wheel drive and independent suspension.The battery was in the boot.

The cost was covered by sugar refiner Sir Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle fame. Over the years the building has been massively extended both behind, below and even over a street to the right.

Jane Austen came with Miss Beckford of Chawton House to visit Dr Newnham here in 1811. Afterwards she described him as 'her Doctor so dread Whose name it was Newnham'.

In 1950 the paper came out on a Friday and cost 2d (less than 1p), but by 1958 it was published on a Thursday and had gone up to 3d.

It was also famed for its absentee rectors, including Edward Trafford Leigh, who took himself off to Italy for his health in the 1830s.

The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912. By this time, in any case, Pierrots were being supplanted by non- costumed 'fol-de-rol' entertainers.

Queen Elizabeth came to stay here in 1561.

Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.

The silver sanctuary lamp came from the chapel at Dunkenhalgh, and so did the silver thurible and a large crucifix.

William of Wykeham, of 'manners maketh man' fame, died here in 1404.

Power lines are visible in the picture, but electricity came to Chilbolton much later than many other communities.

Inside there is a Jacobean chimneypiece that originally came from Pershore in Worcestershire. Behind the rectory, St James' Church is unusual in that it has a very wide nave and no aisles.

Methodism came to the town during the 1740s and 1750s through the efforts of John Cheesborough and John Wesley.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first came to Scotland in 1842, and took over the lease of Balmoral in 1847.

The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.

These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.

In 1965 all the cranes were dipped in salute when the body of Sir Winston Churchill came upstream from Tower Pier to Waterloo after his state funerall.

Many travellers on the Brighton line will remember the Monotype name, as it was advertised along the factory buildings which backed on to the railway line.

Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities. Some, such as Lady Nelson, widow of the Admiral, never left. She lies buried in the churchyard at nearby Littleham.

The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912. By this time, in any case, Pierrots were being supplanted by non-costumed 'fol-de-rol' entertainers.

Various benefactors, including John Forest, Dean of Wells, came to the rescue, and work on the college was eventually finished.

No longer reliant on a hazardous route across the sands, the town quickly grew, catering for the well-to-do, who came here to live or take their holidays.

Then, as today, horse-drawn carriage rides were popular, as were the electric trams, which were the first operating anywhere in the country and came into service along the promenade in 1885.

Without automatic machines, it was an all-day job; washing, rinsing, blueing and mangling, and then pegging out before the rain came.