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Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

Like its twin castle of Pendennis on the opposite side of the river mouth, St Mawes was built on the orders of Henry VIII to guard the entrance to Carrick Roads.

Covered in ivy, the imposing and ancient structure of Norton parish church stands above the Green in a peaceful churchyard.

The black and white marks on the kerbstones indicate the junction.

This is one of Newbury's most attractive streets, Northbrook Street, depicted at the beginning of the 1960s.

Here we see the English side of the De Brus Cenotaph.

Further west along the A30, Chard is a market town laid out in 1234 by Bishop Jocelyn of Wells.

A mile south-west we come to Athelney, a name redolent of Anglo-Saxon history.

The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

Underneath the stained glass windows of the council chamber we can see the arcade of shops leading to the Market Hall, flanked by Marley Modes, a ladies' dress shop, and Bradleys, a gentlemen's outfitters

Just a couple of miles from Haywards Heath railway station is the attractive and ancient village of Lindfield, named after the lime (or linden) trees which flank the village High Street.

It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.

It is a few years after No R87001 (above), and the High Street is still almost deserted - just a couple of cars but no pedestrians, despite the new-fangled zebra crossing.

It is the site of the first lock on the Thames, which has been rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock for the passage of pleasure boats.

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

Unlike King's Lynn, which remained predominantly a port, Great Yarmouth was able to embrace the functions of both port and holiday destination, with its harbour channel to the west and its holiday

The thirty years since photograph 72307 (page 38-39) have left the Callis unchanged, but the area on the right of the photograph, which included the remains of the castle mound, has been levelled and developed

This street scene has not changed very much except for the names of the occupants.

Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts.

The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

This is not the original house or even the location of the original house, which until the 1970s was situated behind the present building.

Running parallel to the south of the road, the Great Ouse meanders between the two towns, and Houghton took advantage of both road and waterborne trade.

By the 16th century the old river channel had become so blocked with sandbanks that the town burghers had to enlist the help of Dutch engineers to cut a new river mouth.

Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts.