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Again it could have been pulled down, but it was saved and rebuilt to the original design in concrete.

Next to the Trustee Savings Bank is an alley, down which I used to go to school. It led into Obelisk Street. Tolley, the first shop, used to produce their own soft drinks on the premises.

While West Clandon with its railway station definitely has the air of a commuter village, East Clandon, facing the slope of the North Downs and surrounded by fields, still has a rural feel

High Street c1960 On the left is the Town Hall with its unu- sual lead-sheathed clock turret.

The Cotswold rivers of Coln and Leach join the Thames here, and the town is much influenced by them.

The Bear Hotel was a much-visited restaurant in the 1960s and 70s, but it became rather run-down and lost most of its clientele. It has re-opened following renovation and cleaning.

On the left edge is the Royal Norfolk Hotel, rebuilt here in 1826 after the earlier one burnt down.

On the corner, behind the now vanished telephone box, are the premises of A & W Riches & Son, an ironmonger's, and further down is the shop of V Carter & Sons.

But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

Gallowtree Gate runs out of Granby Street and London Road as it drops down to the Clock Tower.

The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.

By 1900 it had ceased milling corn and was a timber yard and chair maker's workshop, but it burned down completely in 1912.

The older part of town is surrounded on all sides by water - the River Aire and two canals. Rope making was a flourishing industry both for the marine and agricultural markets.

Fred is laying down money & no mistake.' After the deth of Frederick Crowley, Ashdown was acquired by Guy Ferrand, who changed the name to Morland Hall.

This is seemingly a quiet place on the Esk Valley that runs down to Whitby, but this bridge was swept away in a flood on 23 July 1930. It was rebuilt in 1992 in the style of the original.

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

Great Marsden covers what is now called Colne, and Little Marsden was known as Nelson down to Reedley. Walverton Water ran between the two Marsdens.

The village green is the largest in the Fylde and is graced by a duck-pond and the original village pump (other pumps were melted down and used for jointing new water mains by the Fylde Water Board).

Boots (in the middle distance on the right) is also still with us, but the Coliseum cinema beyond is now a good museum of the town's history.

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The palace is thought to have been burnt down accidently in 1746 by General Hawley's troops.

By 1819 the designer John Rennie had constructed a canal from Kendal in the north down to Wigan, a canal remarkable for the ingenuity of its design.