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The present horse on this site dates from 1778 and was the first of several figures cut in the chalk downs of Wiltshire during the next half-century.

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring.

A match is in progress on the green. Most of the trees we saw in photograph B27004 have now been felled and replaced by houses.

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

James Murgatroyd was the architect, and it was he who was invited back in April 1892 to oversee the taking down of the portico entrance and the bringing out of the front of the building to the pavement

The unusual war memorial and cross are on the left, and the massively-buttressed tower of the parish church dominates the skyline.

Down a tiny lane off the main street, we find the charming 19th-century church of St Gregory.

The house on the left has been totally restored and renovated. The building opposite has changed beyond description.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was given as a private house to Thomas Birch, one of the yeoman of the Crown.

The Castle Hotel is to the right of this picture. Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants).

It is washday again; this time the linen is pegged on a line on Tate Hill sands. Washing machines were almost unknown at this date, and owned only by rich people.

The crowds came in greater numbers after the Snowdon Mountain Railway opened in 1896, which provided easy access to the summit for hundreds of holidaymakers.

Here was the beginning of the canal: the boats are moored just above No 1 lock, the first of 27 needed to reach Lough Neagh.

The Battle of Waterloo partly financed this church. Under the terms of the Million Act of 1818, Austria had to pay £1 million in compensation.

New Road was part of an old turnpike road, where a wagon drawn by five horses was charged 1/6d.

Previously, under the provisions of the Highways Act 1535, every householder had to give four days labour per year, and every ploughland held by a farmer attracted a levy of four days a year for

Longhole is the name given to a curiously-shaped channel, bordered by the north-easterly arm of the North Breakwater, which leads inland towards the central pier.

Its market was thriving and very active; this photograph was probably taken just before the arrival of the livestock - boys always made their extra pocket money helping the farmers and drovers control

There is more than one way to catch a fish; onlookers must be amused at the antics of the unsuccessful fishermen.

The centre of Staines, like that of many other towns in the vicinity of London, has been rebuilt during the last century.

Wales's oldest university is located here; it was established in 1822, and has brought a cosmopolitan complexion to this ancient and most distant of towns.

Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.

It has a medieval parish church in the western part of the village, but all is not as it seems in this view from the east.