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The cart belonging to the former is moving off. Opposite were hatter and hosier Frederick W Dinham and grocer Samuel Douglas Whitemore. There is another cycle store along the street.

However, the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to take another fifty years!

A hundred years earlier in Eckington there were another five inns and taverns in the town: the Rose and Crown, the Duke of York, the Coach and Horses (whose landlord Jas Robinson was also a spring knife

The Stour is another Dorset river well worth following from source to mouth, to gain a feel for this part of the county.

Another worthy establishment funded by Edwin Harris' generous bequest was this orphanage.

Here Brydon's wings, still fresh, flank the 1777 centre with its figure of Justice, for once not blindfolded, crowning the pediment. The dome behind was another felicitous touch by Brydon.

Forster Green clearly thought the length of the street was the right distance from his Castle Place headquarters to site another branch.

The road to the main buildings and Poole can be seen running up from the beach by the ice cream hut. Today both the ice cream hut and the gorse on the beach have disappeared.

A sailing boat clearing the harbour entrance, using a steering oar to assist direction, has attracted attention from bystanders on both harbour moles.

Another inaccessible corner of the county, this is only a few miles from Plymouth, opposite the breakwater in Plymouth Sound.

Noss Mayo's church, seen in the middle distance, was built on the orders of Lord Revelstoke in 1882 in a beautiful setting above both the village and river.

Here is another view showing the popular sun shelter.With the tide in, small boats are ready to go out to sea.The Western Esplanade was not widened until 1914.

Since this picture, both the war memorial and the New Inn have gone.

The Royal Naval College might still be under construction in this picture, as both training ships are moored in the river.

This pier and hotel were both built in 1869. By the 1950s the pier was making a loss, although it remained popular. Lack of maintenance led to its collapse in 1970.

Another important source of income for the locals was smuggling.

Kendal has always been an important service centre for the southern Lake District, and today is the headquarters of both the South Lakeland District Council and the Lake District National Park Authority

A steamer rides at anchor awaiting a tug to take her into Hull, while another is just about to enter the port complex. The paddler on the right is the ferry 'Atalanta'.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion (on the right), and the Brown Cow.

This was probably a Monday, as the washing is laid to dry on the sands.

There is another High Park Farm too, just across the Staffordshire border.

from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some of which are based on Biblical scenes from both

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.This must have been

Unlike Bradford, Bristol was not about to embark on running a railway: they simply wanted the trackbed for a new road to Avonmouth, for the Gorge was not wide enough for both.