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This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

If one needed refreshments, the Tea Cosy Cafe was a little further down the street. All the buildings on the right-hand side were soon to be demolished and the site redeveloped by Boots.

This photograph appears to show a quiet village where nothing much happens apart from an amble down to the post office to buy a few stamps.

The summit at 1083 feet is at the head of West Down at the southern point of Cleeve Common.

This pretty village was the scene of a major disaster in 1952 when the East and West Lyn rivers, swollen by torrential rain, cascaded down demolishing all in their path.

The High Street becomes Fore Street as it heads down towards the river Exe. The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

Later, they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation, and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns.The last of the bottle kilns to be used commercially closed down in 1967

the Petworth to Guildford main road.The church of St John Baptist was rebuilt in 1877; it has a strange-looking font dated 1662.The Half Moon is a 16th-century inn.The Swan Inn can be seen down

To the right, there is still a fish and chip shop by West Street, which runs down to the Minster.

The large, stone building down Quietways, on the right, was the vicarage.

This solidly-built Edwardian shop is still trading as the Post Office, despite some alteration; it stands on the way down to the former station site.

The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

The landscape here is a fine example of the continuing denudation of the Cotswold Scarp; it is of great interest to geologists, as the outlying peaks and downs were once connected to the

The present horse on this site dates from 1778 and was the first of several figures cut in the chalk downs of Wiltshire during the next half-century.

Here, about a mile below Devil's Bridge, the river's waters fall rapidly as they travel down the narrow and steep-sided Clydach Valley to the Usk.

Pictured from the Hard, with old maltings on the left, this peaceful view cannot be easily replicated today, as the ground here fills up with cars in the summer months and sailing boats battened down

The church was pulled down and completely remodelled between 1460 and 1485 in the Perpendicular style. It retained the magnificent 160ft spire from the 14th century.

Peasmarsh strings itself out along the main A268 road; its ancient centre of Norman church and Georgian manor house are isolated down a lane to the south.

Characterised by pointed arches and fine stonework, the old gate is also renowned for its statue of George III gazing down the High Street, dressed as a Roman and wearing a toga.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

A view down Fish Street, known also as Dick's Hill, looking towards the harbour. The view is very different today.

Another of the region's many woollen manufacturing towns, Heckmondwike still exhibits the same no-nonsense, down-to-earth air which characterises this part of the county.

We are looking down on St Mary's Church. The distant green fields and trees are now replaced by in-fill housing.

The woodlands in the distance, a rare example of trees coming down to the seashore, were both private and jealously guarded a century ago.