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On the right, one man wearing a cloth cap and another a bowler are standing side by side. In the days when this photograph was taken, the type of hat worn often indicated status.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

Built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the keep performed both residential and military roles. Its walls were the same thickness all the way up, which enhanced its defensive capabilities.

There has been a fortification of one sort or another at Inverness since the time of King Brude in the 6th century.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s).

North of this east-west road, Little Bookham Street has some older buildings amid the suburbia and wide grassy verges.

Slightly superior to many factory houses, with their small gardens, the terrace on the right has a dated stone on the second house: `Built in the year of AD 1897 Victoria`s Reign`.

Leaving the sprawl of Worthing behind, we move west along the coast and inland to Angmering, a village much expanded to the north and east but retaining its historic core relatively intact.

In 1801, while repairs to the spire were in progress, a barber shaved customers on top of it and a china painter decorated a cup.

John Stokes, a 15th-century clothier, built the north aisle; the chancel was rebuilt in 1876. The Perpendicular font, dug up in 1939, is octagonal, with a pattern of quatrefoils in circles.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

A half century after the era of Dickens there are still several places where the traveller can take refreshment: Webb's is advertising teas, next door is a tea garden, and beyond that yet another sign

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

It is still running today, and serves both as a novelty for holidaymakers and as a commuter train for local schoolchildren.

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.

You can see the Roman remains of Olicana in both the Manor House Museum next to the parish church, and in the Skipton Museum.

Further down the lane we can see another house, also timbered - it was built in 1480.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

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.

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

This was taken not long after the restoration of the interior of the church by the Reverend Bell.

Both received a round of applause.

At Cleobury Mortimer there is another giant of Wyre Forest, the Mawley Oak.