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The Railway Hotel and two blocks of Tudor-style shops were built, but Howard's vision was scuppered by the Second World War.

In Maltings Lane to the right stands a 17th-century maltings that was used by the Home Guard for rifle practice during the war.

Around 1474, a petition to Henry VI was drafted complaining that a priest named Hugh Haddesley and Sir Hugh John, taking advantage of the turmoil caused by the Wars of the Roses, 'have seized on the

Viewed from the west, the façade of the west front is dominated by the Great West Window and the Triple Arch Door.The west front of many cathedrals were intended to be showpieces.

By the Victorian drinking fountain at the entrance to Botley station lies a memorial tablet which reads:'this stone is erected to perpetuate a most cruel murder committed on the body of Thomas Webb

By the beginning of the 11th century the parish was doing well enough to support five churches and two chapels.Then disaster struck.

Improved communications are indicated by the telegraph poles but the absence of roof-top aerials shows that the television had yet to find a place in every home.

We can see the coastguard building and the bungalow used by the garrison commander on Nells Point.

It is said that St Dunstan worked as a smith here, and that this is where he had his famed meet- ing with the devil whom he caught by the nose with his red-hot tongs.

Opposite were the Urban District Council Offices and the indoor riding school for the Rutland Fencibles, a volunteer cavalry regiment raised by the Noels in 1794.

The rivers Ribble, Dow and Douglas meet at Freckleton, and were used by the Romans to get supplies to Kirkham.

The jetty was constructed by the Skinningrove Iron Company in 1886 to enable the products from their works to be exported.

Built by the Wharton family of Skelton Castle for ease of access across Saltburn Glen, the toll bridge was completed in 1869. It stood 120ft high at the centre.

This head was made by the sculptor Gertrude Hermes.

It owes its continued existence to the patronage of the Saxon kings of Wessex and its adoption by the later Normans.

The earliest tourists to the Lake District were overwhelmed by the 'horrid' and 'frightful' nature of the mountains and crags, which frowned down on them as they negotiated the passes.

Buttermere takes its name from Old English, and means 'the lake by the dairy pastures'—where the butter is made.The farmstead of High Stile is still in the same business a thousand years later.

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

It was formally opened by the Prince of Wales in 1926, but many do not consider it as beautiful as the Reading Bridge beyond.

The plate by the window to the left of the door (now a window) shows that this was also the telegraph office and money order office, and also the Post Office Savings Bank.

Traffic restrictions and the roundabout by the Whyteleafe Tavern are still many years away, but the post office remains at 217 Godstone Road on the right.

It was then acquired by the National Trust, who use it for an exhibition centre on this World Heritage Site.

Originally it linked Great Haywood to the old village of Shugborough; the village was later removed by the Ansons as it spoiled their view.

These elevators were installed at a number of busy locks to cope with the vast numbers of small leisure boats spawned by the boating craze these views capture.