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Regular cruises take enthusiasts down-river to see the famous avocets on the river's mud banks. These fisherfolk and boat- men share a rare idle moment in a busy day.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine—or monkey-puzzle tree—grows in a garden further down the hill

Here we see a busy scene, with parked cars on the right and an open-topped bus bound for Southend chugging down the Street on the left.The picture is taken from close to the railway bridge, looking

This 16th-century arch, leading from the original village down to the harbour, was once fitted with a portcullis and gates as a protection for the settlement against pirates and sea-raiders.

Victorian tourists would walk the six miles across Ballard Down to see these unusual rock formations on the coast near to Swanage.

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

the road into a dual carriageway, and you see Mutley as it is today, except that the Hyde Park Hotel (from where this view was taken) is now on an island and Mutley Methodist (left) has been pulled down

This view looks down the spacious nave and shows the wide nave aisles. The high arches of the nave arcades echo the proportions of Canterbury cathedral.

The Crown Hotel in the High Street tried very hard; but it did the proprietors no good, because the hotel closed down soon afterwards.

A liveried driver negotiates a light carriage down the narrow lane beside the church in this well-composed picture.

A decade after this photograph was taken, the picturesque weatherboarded mill on the River Cray was burnt down.

We are looking down Penrith's main shopping street.

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

This fine view of Dover's sweeping Esplanade shows bathing machines pulled down near the water.

The western side was then demolished and rebuilt, but it was another seven years before the eastern side was pulled down to give the road the width which exists today.

Horses pulling the narrowboats would have climbed up the bridge on the right and down on the left, thus changing from one side of the canal to the other at this point.

Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years. The stone was used extensively for the arcades of many Devon churches.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

The Plough Inn was demolished to allow for the extension of the graveyard, leaving the New Inn a few yards further down towards the sea.

Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill. It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

In front of the abbey, and partly hidden by a tree, is St Margaret's Church, which was then the parish church of 10 Downing Street.

An evocative view of old Corringham, down on the flat land close to the Thames and now a close neighbour to the estates of Thurrock and the Thames-side oil storage depots.

This would have come from the local chalk downs, and the stone for the windows, tracery and doorways perhaps came from Bentley, some five miles to the south.

It was completed in 1840 after one notable delay - the workers downed tools to join a Chartist march as it passed by on its way to the Westgate Hotel.