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The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.

The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements. Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.

Drayton's thatched, grey lias war memorial stands across Church Street from the Drayton Arms. Behind stands Church House, once a meeting-place for monks from nearby Muchelney Abbey.

Tyrley (pronounced Turley) Locks consists of a flight of five locks south of Market Drayton. Along with coal, the main products that were shipped along this canal were cheese and milk.

It gained importance from the ferry which it operated over the Ouse to Fen Drayton.

Market Drayton's weekly market (every Wednesday) is still famous in Shropshire, drawing people from all over the county.

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Market Drayton stands on a hill-top site overlooking the River Tern, which flows in the foreground of this photograph, and the settlement probably originated in prehistoric times.

He was born near Market Drayton, and on his return from India he became both mayor of the town and its MP.

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

The open-air swimming pool in Market Drayton was built in the 1930s; it attracted people from a large area around the town, even from as far away at Stoke on Trent.

Of the fairies, Fferrand wrote: 'amongst the uneducated people in Rochdale the superstition of fairies has not been dispelled, and Shakespeare, Drayton, and other poets, in the exercise of their poetical

Although not the post office at the time of this photograph, the post box outside must have been an omen of things to come, because today the building houses the Drayton Post Office and Stores.

Drayton Bassett is situated four miles south of Tamworth.

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Consequently, the buildings on the far left were later demolished when the road was widened to ease the flow of traffic through Market Drayton.

containable on Portsea Island itself and boundary extensions in 1904, 1920 and 1932 embraced, in due course, the northern parts of Portsea Island itself, Cosham, Paulsgrove and Wymering and, finally, Drayton

In fact, there was a disastrous fire in the heart of Market Drayton that took place in 1651, and so despite its appearance the building must be later.

This building was extended but was still too small, so the new Drayton Surgery was constructed in 1996 at No 280.

West of Sutton Courtenay the route reaches Drayton. The older houses are mostly along the High Street, Church Lane and Abingdon Road.

Poole had many independent breweries at this time; here we see one of their horse drawn drays on a delivery round.