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The village flourmill was powered by two overshot waterwheels. The mill is pictured when it was still in working order.

The main A177 road south from Shincliffe leads to Coxhoe; it may follow the course of an old Roman road.

This is the landscape northwards from the limekilns and quarries north of Wych to the Main Street at Bothenhampton (left to right).

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover.

Looking south across the River Wey, with a group of children posing for the photographer in front of the wooden Boarden Bridge, the centuries-old crossing point.

The sign in the foreground points to the Army's Central Ammunitions Depot in Bramley Road, which eventually shut in the 1970s.

The Post Office building is solidly built of brick.

For many working people, life after the war was grey and utilitarian. Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family, with everything included in the cost.

An isolated village of flint and brick cottages, to the west of Chichester. In the village are Adsdean, a gabled Tudor style house of around 1850, and the church of St Mary, built in 1859.

We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

On the left is a fine Victorian shop- front imposed on a plain brick house. The town is renowned for its public school, Gresham's, founded in 1555 by John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London.

Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and

On the right are Rayner's, an electrical shop, and Thomas the ironmonger. To the right, the long building is the former 15th-century Guildhall.

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.

This new viaduct across the Tamar has just been opened, linking Plymouth to the district around Gunnislake and Callington.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

Needham, on the main road, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

A four-hour period in the stocks was the usual reward for misdemeanours such as blasphemy, drunkenness, vagrancy or breaking the Sabbath.

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

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.