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Thence it was a short walk to Shepperton Lock, where one could watch the progress of craft up and down the Thames to Chertsey or Walton.

Beneath it is a sign that reads 'Black Beauty Shag, excellent for making your own cigarettes, costing 8d and 4d'. The shop has gone and is now a private house.

Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

This view looks south down the High Street from near High Bridge. The 11th-century tower of St Mary le Wigford church peers out amid the later commercial architecture.

The old stump of this tree known as Merlin's Oak is still kept in the town's civic hall.

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.

Campbell's ships still visited, and although their operations were drastically scaled down, the end of the summer season was still a time for fireworks, parties and celebration.

Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.

The road then led down to Harlow Mill on the Stort and the bridge into Hertfordshire.

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Gardens slope down to the river, and thick canopies of trees at the water's edge keep the wind from the sails of boats.

With rows of charming buildings and the River Nene flowing on three sides of it, Oundle has often been described as Northamptonshire's most delightful town.

In full armour, knights rode down the lists, trying to unhorse one another with lances. The castle is now a ruin.

Over the years encroachments have closed down this open space, but this may be excused by the quality of the flat-fronted Georgian buildings in the photograph.

Behind us stretches a shingle bank down to Orford and beyond, where the Alde meets the sea.

Travellers on the A25 cannot fail to see the scars on the south side of the North Downs that were once the Betchworth quarries.

The spire was struck by lightning in 1854 and the steeple had to be pulled down, but all was restored and the church extended in 1882.

It is close to the lane that goes down to the village school, and faces one of the entrances to the railway station from where these men departed forever.

We are looking in the same direction, only this time the view is taken from lower down the road, and shows the fine villas very much associated with the town.

The lane leads to Alfriston further down the Cuckmere River, a popular tourist village with its Clergy House.

Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.