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W Heath Robinson, whose son was a monk at the abbey, painted a cartoon of the restoration work.

However, if the visitor looks at the upper storeys or, if opportunity presents itself, at the rear elevation of the buildings, they give the clues to their origins.

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

Girls or boys? East side or west side? Twins or not? After the Whitby Gazette was kind enough to publish their picture, we received help from several sources.

The Midland Bank is prominent on the left, facing the National Westminster and Barclays, which was a few steps from Lloyds' palatial building opposite the Royal Hotel.

As late as 1870, enclosure meadowland and hawthorn hedges stretched away from Wigston, but the ensuing period up to 1900 was to see a trebling of population figures as hosiers and boot and shoe manufacturers

The lower buildings on the right were demolished during the building of the Great Central Railway in the late 1890s.

Here we see the sturdy porticoed front of Botley's famous Market Hall, built in 1848.

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

The aptly named Woodstock Gate, one of the main entrances to Blenheim Palace, lies just around the corner.

At this time there is a mix of motor and horse-drawn conveyances for the tripper.

St Mary's dates from the 15th century, and stands on the site of an earlier Knights Templar house.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Included in this view (taken from the top of what is known as the Broomfields) is the old Willesborough Hospital.

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.

This rambling village is a mixture of the old and the new. Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office.

St Andrew's is the mother church of Plymouth; there is evidence that a Christian community used the site as early as the 8th century. Construction of the present building commenced in 1370.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Tradition says that the church was built largely at the expense of the 'Swaffham pedlar' - one John Chapman, who was lucky enough to find two pots of gold in his garden after being guided to them in a