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The view down the street in 1950 is not greatly different from 50 years before, although a car has replaced the pony and trap.

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. Here we see a workplace with an open-air view; the craftsmen are taking a breather.

The town, now more peaceful since the A303 bypass was completed, is mostly built in the warm golden Ham stone with Georgian and 19th-century frontages.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal

This little village stands on the edge of a cove in the chalk cliffs of South Foreland, where the road drops steeply down to St Margaret's Bay; it clusters around an impressive Norman church, built around

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar

This hamlet down in the East Looe river valley a mile from Liskeard was once a small centre of industry.

This is at the end of the village, where a track leads down to a passenger ferry across the Gannel to the Pentire district of Newquay.

Like Lewes, Arundel was established by a Norman baron, this time Roger de Montgomery, to guard a river gap in the South Downs, in this case the Arun.

A few miles from Dunstable, through the Downs, and nowadays part of the commuter belt, Castle Hill road links the three ends of Totternhoe, Church, Middle and Lower.

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this view, which looks towards the 2,403 ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

Here the photographer looks down the alley from Market Square to the entrance bay; the oriel window was added by George Devey for the Rothschilds in the 1870s.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

It eventually burnt down in a spectacular blaze on 16 May 1985 which took 11 fire crews to extinguish. The site is now occupied by flats, built in 1988.

right, has lost its top storey and the houses at the foot of the hill have been replaced - but none the less this is clearly School Hill, although the modern traffic system does not allow you to motor down

insists that it owes its name to an unlikely incident after the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, when Charles I is said to have come here and demanded that the local gentry donate silverware to be melted down

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

The mill was owned by the Elmer family until 1953, when it ceased working. In 1963 it was blown down in high winds, only hours before it was to be dismantled to repair Holton mill.

The driver of the Triumph Herald 1200 patiently waits, with his window wound down, for his wife to post a letter and buy a newspaper.

The hill leads from the Bear Hotel down to the A46 and on to North Woodchester, visible in the distance.

The Roman bridge can be found down a footpath near the post office, and Fairy Bridge is north of the Red Pump Inn.

The first large property on the left is The Towers, and in front of it is the path leading down to the harbour and Jackson's Bay.

In 1964 it was discovered that the foundations were defective and a complete re- building, with foundations taken down to solid chalk, was implemented.