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The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.

Just outside the village is the beautiful 560-acre Godmersham Park, the home down the centuries of the Valoigns, Astyns and Broadnaxes. Jane Austen was a frequent visitor here.

Looking West This view looks down Commercial Road towards the old market site.

Behind the boat with sails up (centre left) we can just see a row of bathing machines, which could be towed down to the water so that the bathers could step out of the machine straight into

The buildings just beyond have been pulled down and replaced.

Broseley was once the only sizeable town in what is now known as the Ironbridge Gorge area. It was an important industrial centre, and coal was mined and shipped from here down the River Severn.

They weigh up to 40 tons each, and were brought from Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, about 20 miles away, from a surface quarry that can still be visited.

The stone half way down the other side of the road marked the entry to Mill Lane which led to Mill Street, the main entry road to the town for many centuries.

We are looking down on Aberdare, a town set amid beautiful scenery at the head of the Cynon Valley. On the far right, the road continues over the top to Maerdy.

His father was the vicar here and Dodgeson was born in the nearby vicarage, which has since burnt down.

Facing down the street (centre) is the Corner Café, now an optician's shop, whilst the café on the left is now an Indian restaurant.

This infamous headland, at 536ft the highest cliff on the south coast, marks the point where the South Downs plunge into the English Channel.

Can you see the sign of the Noel Arms further down on the left, and the Wheatsheaf on the right? Dulcie Ellingworth was headmistress here.

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

The awnings are down over the windows; it is a hot, sunny day.

Situated under the downs, very close to the Long Man, the former manorial grange at Wilmington had, by the 13th century, developed into a small priory.

Rhos-on-Sea was the poorer cousin to nearby Colwyn Bay, yet it still manages an identity of its own.

These views (below and pages 40-41) up and down Church Street would have been familiar to Dylan Thomas, who lived near New Quay in 1944, and to many visitors, who have to park their cars at the top of

Watford Way, running down to the North Circular Road from the M1 motorway, looks definitely under-used in 1960.

Frith's intrepid photographer sought a high vantage point at Boots Corner for this view down Buttermarket Street.

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

We can see the First and Last House down by the Land's End, while in the far distance is the headland of Cape Cornwall.

The 121 acres of Farthing Down have in recent years seen the introduction of a small herd of cattle to graze the coarser grasses.

Looking towards the Castle at the end of the street, note the agricultural implements on sale on the left, the Lion Hotel further down the street, and on the right-hand side the arched