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Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.

This junction was later moved further on, and the 'cut' to the left became the entrance to the 'pound'.

On the top of the hill is the outer navigation station for Heathrow Airport, used by the Trans-Atlantic flights.

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

Six hundred years later, another invading army made Old Sarum its defensive home: the inner fortifications now contained a Norman castle and a cathedral.

The inner bailey was defended by fourteen towers, and both gates had barbicans.

The local church here contains the graves of two Englishmen - both remembered for entirely different reasons.

Begun in the mid 1830s, Walton Hall was to be both the family home and the country estate of Gilbert Greenall, a wealthy local brewer and prominent businessman.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.