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As we look south down High Street we can see that many of the buildings survive today, including the dormered building on the far left.

The lane down to Skinningrove village runs off at the bottom left-hand corner. On the skyline we can just see the overhead tramway carrying buckets of ironstone from one of the mines.

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

In 1959 a pedestrian bridge (C294083, pages 48-49) was built on the Cooperative side to the rear of the new shops; it was used until 1964, when it was taken down.

The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

Here they load up with china clay brought down by rail from St Austell. Fowey, although packed in the summer with leisure craft, does retain the atmosphere of a bustling, working port.

The River Wye frames the town centre, running in a loop around the western and southern sides.

Behind the disused mill was the Wharfedale Brewery, which supplied many of the town's 15 taverns. The brewery closed during the First World War, and was then used as billets for troops.

Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river. One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

Admittedly, these are replicas dating from 1880 – the originals burned down in 1711. Southwell Minster became the Cathedral Church of the diocese in 1884.

It prospered in medieval times as an important halt for pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, since it lies just off the North Downs Way.

Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

No doubt the kiosk sold tickets for the boats at the end of the pier, but for a generation which knew nothing of cars it also led to a railway system opening up the delights of County Down.

Pier Hill leads down to the sea front esplanade, with the Palace Hotel on the left. Below the hotel, facing the sea, are many small shops.

This view looks down Prestatyn's High Street, towards the new Rehoboth Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, which had opened the previous year, and the spire of Christ Church, built in 1863.

Further down Northgate Street is The New Inn, still in business today and one of the best-preserved medieval galleried inns in the country.

Now the town council offices, it dates from around 1540; it has had a number of previous uses, including being the town Poor House (from 1762 to 1854), then a post office, an undertaker's and a wheelwright's

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Scots fisher girls followed the herring shoals down to the port in the autumn and worked tirelessly day and night gutting and packing.

Next to the hotel (centre) were warehouses dating from 1824, where flax, cotton and guano manure were stored; but these were pulled down in 1965.

Today there are a variety of shops here, ranging from specialist boutiques to a picture framer just down from the market hall.

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925.