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West Huntspill, which we see here, grew from a conglomeration of agricultural hamlets straggling across the Levels.

Built in 1882, the Corn Exchange continued in use as such right up until 1972.

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs. Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

The fisher women of Newlyn clustered at the fish-stalls with their 'cowels', baskets carried on their backs, which were supported by a band passed round their foreheads.

The Recreation Ground, known as 'the Rec', was purchased by public subscription started in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

Horndean began as a result of the 18th-century turnpike road.

By the 1930s the tiny hamlet of Hare Street had been swallowed up into Gidea Park.

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

Here we see Nunney at the north-east end. The house in the foreground, built in 1820, was the church school house until 1896, when it became known as the Church Rooms.

The west range of the castle to the right dates back to the 13th century, whereas the heavily fenestrated north range to the left is Elizabethan, the work of Sir John Perrot, half-brother

The Main General Post Office is on the left of the photograph. Gone are the days when it opened seven days a week from 7.30am to late in the evening.

Back into Willingdon, continue north to turn towards Jevington, through Wannock, and onto the scenic Jevington Road.

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

Instow grew as a resort town at the mouth of the Torridge in the 1830s, and most of the terraces and villas on the shore in this picture date from then.

Frith's photographer was looking back through the carriageway towards Church Street straight ahead.

Frith's photographer was looking back through the carriageway towards Church Street straight ahead.

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

A little further east along the Essex shore our photographer reaches Tilbury and continues his maritime theme; he firmly turned his back on the remarkable 1670s Tilbury Fort, built by a Dutch engineer

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

The Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras.