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This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

Looking down the busy, bustling high street to the Albert Memorial clock tower. Horse-drawn trams vie with the carts for the road, whilst the street is busy with shoppers.

East Cliff is a popular spot of rough grassland where the downs meet the sea. The beach could be reached by a series of steps known as 'The Hundred Steps'.

The ford does not cut straight across the Rib, but runs along the river bed and then emerges further down stream on the opposite bank.

A tram rattles down the street. Both Birkenhead and Wallasey Corporations operated their own tramway systems.

In the background the crowd is gathering, and the awnings are being taken down off the bandstand. The music is about to begin.

In the background the crowd is gathering, and the awnings are being taken down off the bandstand. The music is about to begin.

This photograph shows Cornmarket Street running down to Carfax, with the outline of Tom Tower dominating St Aldates on the far side.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

This view, from the famous High and Over viewpoint on the South Downs, shows the big meanders and flat valley floor of the only undeveloped river-mouth in the south-east.

Note the bathing machines down by the water's edge on the extreme left.

The path leads down to the church of All Saints and St James the Greater.

Empty barges waiting to be towed back down the river are tied up at the embankment alongside the Portsmouth Road where it becomes the High Street.

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

In direct contrast to the over-populated coastal plain, the South Downs remained relatively deserted for centuries, for sheep require very few human guardians.

It is in fact the surviving chancel of a larger building thrown down in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The famous South Downs Way long-distance trail runs along the top.

Here he wrote down 'Bushes and Briars', which he heard sung by villagers.

Paul is the mother village for Mousehole, which lies down on the coast below.

The Friendship Rowing club have moved their pontoon down river from their previous anchorage, as seen in

Pictured from the junction with the main road, the lane leads down past the cottages towards the village school.

At this time, the buildings on the right are awaiting their fate - they were eventually pulled down. But they themselves had their origins in encroachment on the original larger medieval market place.

Looking down towards St Andrew's Street, with First Court, the oldest part of Christ's College, in the distance. The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.

Another general view, this time of the tranquil Usk as it wends its way down towards the Severn estuary south of Newport, Gwent. The Usk rises south-west of Trecastle in Powys.