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As well as the Star Dining Rooms and the Pier Head Dining Room on its left, we have another on the very right of our view.

In 1925 it became the Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, with 400 campers in this building and another 100 men in permanent tents in the grounds. It later became Middleton Towers Holiday Camp.

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

Another quiet day in the High Street; perhaps the photograph was taken on a Wednesday, which was early closing day.

This is a fine view of Holy Cross Church with the Abbey Buildings on the left. The Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Institute is on the right.

The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.

This view shows Caerphilly following the restoration both of its fabric and its water defences by the Marquis of Bute.

Augustus John was another native of the town.

Here we see another view of the street, which was cut in early Victorian times to become a channel of trade and industry. The vista extends to Cromac.

He demonstrated the boat before Queen Victoria in 1852 on the Solent at Netley.

Interestingly, the four columns seen in our picture were taken to Knutsford to await use in another building, and that is where they are today - behind the King's Coffee House in King Street, Knutsford

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

The Greenwich Meridian sign on the wall between Nos 105 and 107 is well worth finding - it was placed there in 1948.

This splendid view shows both the flight and boats.

There is another 18th-century house on the opposite side of the street, built in 1769 as Rev James Rooker`s Academy (right).

The boys, both day pupils and boarders, worshipped in the Roman Catholic Church in Victoria Grove. The nuns would not allow boys to use their names and instead gave each a number.

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

The Market Place is to the right. In the distance we can see the shop of Frank and Albert Blakey, grocers, and the High Speed Gas offices.

In 1925 it became the Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, with 400 campers in this building and another 100 men in permanent tents in the grounds. It later became Middleton Towers Holiday Camp.

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

Records show that St Lawrence stands on the site of a Christian church dating back to at least 1108.

The Market Place is to the right. In the distance we can see the shop of Frank and Albert Blakey, grocers, and the High Speed Gas offices.

Note the young lad on the right; he has no shoes. Over on the left outside Harkers are two large hampers on a barrow. Harkers might be getting a visit from a salesman.