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However, it still manages to retain much of its village atmosphere. Its church is at least 13th-century in origin, though the larger part is later medieval.

Holker is very much an estate village for workers on the estate of the Cavendish family, who have been here since 1756.

It is interesting that the little cars and vans looked so much more friendly in these times: they are not ostentatious, and they leave room for these pedestrians and cyclists to roam carelessly

The British School of 1859, demolished in the late 1960s, was much like the National School, now Andover Primary School (C of E Controlled) which still thrives today in lower East Street.

There is a blocked arch under the window, where a chapel has been demolished. The porch has an unusual extra buttress which here masks some of the decoration over the door.

During the 1880s and 1890s there were about 200 hookers registered locally, and as they rarely spent more than twenty-four hours at sea, much of the town's fresh fish was landed from them.

The buildings by the road have been sold off recently and the land, like so much in Mobberley, is being developed for housing.

The civic hall was designed by E Vincent Harris and opened with much ceremony in 1933, with temporary stands being erected for spectators.

The bus advertising E A Beveridge & Co and the cars are of an earlier vintage, but the buildings still look much the same.

The sailing barges look very much at home bottomed- out on the creek mud.

The photogapher was standing in St John's Lane, which leads under the arch into St John's Square.

Today Little Sutton has become a suburb of the much newer town of Ellesmere Port.

Salt was a very important commodity in the past, so much so that salt ('sal' in Latin) was often used as a means of payment for soldiers in the Roman army - hence our words 'salary' today.

Much of this land is now an industrial estate.

The wide main street of the village of Coxwold has not changed much since the days when Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy, was vicar from 1760 until his death in 1768.

The scene has not changed too much today, as the suburban growth of New Sarum has stopped short of the site of its neolithic ancestor.

It could be a sign of the times that Curtis & Co on the corner by the arch no longer sell shoes; the premises are presently occupied by an estate agent.

Abingdon's bridges were built in 1416-17 widened in 1820 and substantially rebuilt in 1927; the wide central arch dates from this rebuild.

At the right we can see the medieval arches of St John's Hospital at ground floor level with the sashes of the former Council Chamber above; the stone external staircase was added in 1958.

It burnt down in 1947, and after much debate, the ruins were cleared away in the early 1960s.

In those days railway companies were forbidden from owning passenger ships without Parliamentary approval, a fact not lost on the LB&SCR's arch-rival the London & South Eastern.

The Heath itself is much reduced, but in places you can still find the early spacious villas where they have not been swept away for blocks of flats.

It was there that he started to write his most famous book, 'Dracula', setting much of it in Whitby. Alas! Before the crescent could be completed Hudson's fame and his money ran out.

The stone-built Gothicky Methodist Chapel of 1835 with its pretty arched windows is next to the old school of 1878, now used by the Moulton Theatre.