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The splendid Perpendicular tower of All Saints, Youlgreave, is one of the finest in the Peak District, and commands this view down Church Street.

The bathing huts will soon be winched down to the shallows so that modest ladies can paddle discreetly.

The dome further down the street was on the old Empire Theatre, which could seat 2,500 people. It specialised in music hall-style entertainment before it closed during the 1960s.

The statue of King Alfred, erected in 1877, looks down on a car park taken over every Wednesday and Saturday by market stalls.

Much of its architecture dates from the 19th century, a reminder that the Victorians made this island their own as a holiday and residential location.

After the horses had been changed at Kingsfold, the stagecoaches ran through Warnham down Little London Hill, past Warnham Corner at the junction of Station Road.

Two smart white-liveried motor charabancs are collecting holiday makers from the pier, possibly for the advertised excursion over the South Downs.

The view from Keeper's Cottage, left, leads us down the lane towards the Wombwell Arms, named after local landowner, Sir George Wombwell.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

In the days when the Reverend William Downes was rector, and William Wilkinson kept the Leeds Arms, local farmers included Joseph Booth, Jonathan Marshall, Maude Thomas, John Shirt and Thomas Stanland

Fittings from Hawkhill in Edinburgh were saved by the Scottish Georgian Society just two days before the building burnt down. Culdees Castle was demolished in 1967.

The aroma of freshly-ground coffee used to drift down this street in the heart of the city. Collinson's Café, above John Smith's on the left, also offered a three-piece orchestra.

An inquisitive dog with a docked tail keeps an attentive eye on proceedings further down the street.

Cromer stands high and bracing on its breezy cliffs, from which stairs and zig-zag paths lead down to the sands. On undeveloped tastes Cromer would be thrown away.

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

The towering chapel of this school dominates the landscape for miles around; its position is wonderful, high above where the South Downs are cut deep by the Adur valley on its way to the sea.

It replaced a Norman church that had become run down and semi-derelict. Rather than repair it, the decision was taken to rebuild.

Owned by British Railways, a steam engine is shown hauling a goods train north on the east coast main line.

The Swan Inn can be seen down the road beyond the horse-drawn vehicles that are waiting for the photographer.

Here we see unsaddled horses being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

Barges plied up and down the Wharfe delivering to the breweries, including John Smith's at Tadcaster, pictured here.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr

The church was once home to what must have been one of the earliest lending libraries in England: in 1492 Geoffrey Downes lent his books to the church, with specific intstructions that gentlemen should