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The Angel Hotel (offering Good Stabling and Garage) was knocked down and replaced by a cinema. This in turn has become a nightclub. A pub built next door - The Bell - is now derelict.

Nearly 5 inches fell; water cascaded down the ghylls dragging huge boulders in its wake, causing over £100,000 worth of damage to Ilkley.

The first stage of the Otley to Skipton Railway reached Ilkley on 1 August 1865 - the town was decorated with bunting, and merrymaking continued day and night.

This view looks down the High Street towards the clock tower. This was built as a market hall and lock up, or temporary prison, in 1842, but in 1870 the clocktower, belfry and spire were added.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

Here, looking down Main Street towards St Mary's Church with its horse mounting steps, we see the white Imperial Cottage (left). The chestnut tree has been removed, giving a view of Jubb's Farm.

Here we see the heart of what many claim is Kent's prettiest village: the tower of its 15th-century flintstone church of St Mary's looks down on this spacious square lined with half-timbered Tudor and

The reality is more down to earth.

Terraces extend down Mallams, and houses have reached Modbury Mead (centre).

Further down, towards Bancroft and Nightingale Road, the tannery and other industrial works poured their waste into the river. Only the lavender works may have offset the obnoxious smell of the Hiz!

The church of St Mary and St Hugh was badly damaged by fire in 1708, which burnt down the spire and melted the bells.

The gaps in the wooden weir were stopped with slats which enabled more water to be directed down the leat.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

Here we are looking from the 'island' back to the outer ward of the castle, with the access lane down the valley on the left. The building is now a café.

Although the railway station opened in 1847 some 200 yards south of the Cock Hotel crossroads, development did not really get under way here until the Epsom Downs line opened in 1865, and new station

A familiar sight for those heading to or from Eastbourne along the A27 as it passes north of the South Downs escarpment is the Long Man of Wilmington, a gigantic chalk figure of a man holding 250ft-long

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

Church House (down to the left) dates from 1694, but Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines - and the

It was on the sands here that the French invasion army laid down its arms — with the exception of 25 who could not attend due to temporary incapacity (they were ill or probably drunk on looted

The pillar box is now further down the High Street. In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road. No 1 is divided by a drainpipe from 100 High Street.

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

Wootton ran his stables at Treadwell House, off Downs Road. He had come to Epsom in 1906 when he was a boy, arriving with his father Richard from Australia.

Further down, near all the cars, is Frydays, a good fish and chip shop and restaurant.