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In the 1190s Rye joined the Cinque Ports federation, a group of Kent and Sussex ports that provided ships for the King's navy in return for enormous privileges.

Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.

The views are remarkably evocative of a past era of the town, as the road has, with one notable exception, been entirely redeveloped.

To the right is the Liberal Club, also of 1893, and further along is the old Mechanics' Institute (1889) with its own collection of over 800 books.

This view shows how much more traffic there was by the 1960s, and a 'No Entry' sign to King Street. A van in the square belongs to Lawrence's, a radio and television dealer.

Westborough was one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

This, the town's only open-air swimming pool, was recently demolished and replaced by the Marina and a supermarket: something of a poor exchange.

A steam launch - the 'Thistle' - is moored outside the Crown and Thistle pub's landing stage just above Abingdon town bridge. This pub, a 19th-century coaching inn, is still open for business.

The bustling holiday town of Largs has long been famous as the site of a battle in 1263 between the Norwegians and the Scots.

Rothwell is an old town with a market charter from King John's reign.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

Bognor was described thus in a Victorian tourist 1895 guidebook: 'This town is Worthing's twin sister – a quiet, mild, healthy watering-place, situate on a level in the face of the ever-restless Channel

The abundance of Union Jacks and other flags in this view of Wood Street suggests that the photograph was taken in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation.

The unfortunate earl was taken prisoner and carted off to his own castle at Pontefract, where he was beheaded.

By 1440 the town was trading in dairy produce, wine, fish, garlic, silk, iron, coal, copper and lead.

All is peace and quiet in this scene, but things were livelier on 23 January 1570. Lord James Stewart, Earl of Moray and Regent, was shot by James Hamilton as he rode through the town.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

Half a century after photograph M116301, the Market place is much tidier, with kerbs, grass and flower beds, and it has parked cars in the centre.

Landlords here included Henry Hills, Mrs Emily Jane Parsons, and Miss L Parsons. To the right is Duffy, the butcher's.

St Barnabas Church was built in the 1880s to the designs of Carpenter and Ingelow.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

One of the town's oldest inns, it was once known as the George and Dragon. Here Bonnie Prince Charlie rested overnight on his march south during the Jacobite uprising of 1745.

We are looking in the opposite direction to S51047 towards Albion Terrace, with the Queen Hotel and the Primitive Methodist church just visible on the left-hand side of the street.

The town was built on the coal industry, as were many in South Wales; Porthcawl was a coal port in the 19th century, but it declined in the face of competition from Barry and Port Talbot.