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It eventually burnt down in a spectacular blaze on 16 May 1985 which took 11 fire crews to extinguish. The site is now occupied by flats, built in 1988.

Jack Rattenbury, the 'Rob Roy of the West', was born at Beer in 1778 and experienced a series of adventures at sea before settling down to a life of smuggling along this wild and lonely

Tideford is at the very head of the tidal creek of the River Tiddy; this lane leads down to the water, with the woodlands of the St Germans estate on the far side.

above the village, it affords panoramic views with the erosion caused by rivers and frost action during the Ice Ages evident in the isolation of the three peaks of Downham Hill, Cam Peak and Cam Long Down

A family walk down Magazine Lane Slipway onto the beach. This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

Wye sits beneath the chalk hills of the North Downs; it has a 12th-century church, beautiful Georgian buildings and a college founded in the 1400s by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Hall burnt down in 1914, and the estate was sold in 1915. The drive now gives access to areas of housing.

The next building down had been Goymour's the butchers until 1950. Beyond the splash is the timbered Bell Inn, and above it is Stay Barn.

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

The dawning of the railway age helped in no small way to put Burgess Hill on the map, and the Railway Hotel can be seen on the right in this picture.

As we look south down Ironmonger Street, the view is terminated by St Michael's Church, now gruesomely converted into shops, but I suppose in some way 'saved' from physical if not spiritual destruction

Halfway down on the left, an ironstone wall retains two mullioned windows from a former cottage. Because it was thought to add character to the village, it was saved from demolition.

This view was taken further down the shopping precinct. In the distance are high-rise flats.

Mappin and Webb's corner premises, together with the section of Queen Victoria Street down to Cannon Street, were completed in 1869.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

Despite additional building and road widening, this scene is still easily recognisable, although a walk down the centre of the road (as the two men are doing) is not advisable.

Owing its rapid development to the Industrial Revolution, the town's streets and buildings tended to be functional rather than attractive.

This view was taken from underneath the railway bridge looking down towards the Wharfe and the next village, Middleton.

As we walk down Northgate Street from the cross, and turn right by Debenhams, we will enter the relatively new area of Kings Square.

A little further down the street, a boy carries a billboard advertising 'Hilton's Boot Sale'. Note the building in the centre by the attractive street lamp - we will see it again.

Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment