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As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.

This photograph was taken from close to the site of the obelisk fountain which is visible in the photograph taken in c1890.

To the right of the bungalow on the left, which now has four dormer windows, is the roof of the Club Union Home, which was then topped with a small tower; this tower was demolished in the 1960s

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

This shows the war memorial on the corner of Kingsbury Street which leads to The Green.

West of the Market Square the road divides: the left hand road goes to Long Sutton, the right fork heads for Langport.

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

There is safe bathing for children at high tide, protected from the open sea and its waves, behind the North Wall of the harbour.

The 120-foot tower of St James' dominates this view from the south-east. The church is notable for its 15th- century frontals, which are said to be the earliest set in the country.

In a sense, the photograph captures the essence of village England as it was in the 1960s and as it is today.

Viewed from the Close and looking East, the room with the large window over the Gate was a chapel belonging to Malmesbury House, the front of which can be seen to the left of the picture.

It was named Kings House after James I, and Queen Ann of Denmark and Henry, Prince of Wales stayed there in the early 17th century.

This picture was probably taken soon after the end of the Second World War, judging by the Food Office sign on the right of the picture.

As at Tipton and Wednesbury, the 30 ft seam of Thick Coal was near the surface at Bilston.Though there is evidence for coal pits at the time of Edward I, Bilston came into its own during the 19th century

We are looking at the medieval Cobb harbour (centre) from the tennis ground on the cliffs south of Langmoor Gardens.

Beyond is the four square mile expanse of the Royal Navy's Victorian Harbour of Refuge, and its 20th-century oil tanks (centre left) beside the Mere.

So too were aspects of the 'alternative society', who used Stonehenge for all sorts of spiritual enlightenment or protest, as can be seen by the CND sign daubed on the stone in the centre.

Half a mile south-east of Dicker we reach Michelham Priory, the buildings set within a large rectangular wet moat fed by the Cuckmere River, which forms the moat's north-west arm.

St Mary's Church is one of the finest churches in Cheshire, and serves a community that was, at one time, more important than nearby Nantwich.

Less than two hundred years ago this was farmland. The the railways arrived.

The horizontal distribution of the buildings shows how the houses had to be built in terraces, thanks to the town's hilly location.

The north coast of Cornwall is extremely hazardous for shipping; after numerous wrecks and petitions to Trinity House, a new lighthouse was built on the Head in 1847 with a range of over 20 miles.

The Bradford Exhibition of 1904 stimulated the laying-out of this former country estate.

The construction workyard on the Devon bank has been cleared, but the wooden ketch 'Garlandstone' can be seen being built at James Goss's shipyard just behind the viaduct.