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The man walking across the road appears oblivious to the oncoming cyclist, and our cameraman is no better: he stood in the middle of the road to get this shot.

From here six farm labourers were transported to Australia in 1834 for taking an illegal oath in their quest for union recognition and better wages and conditions.

The slope of the rock on the south side was such that it would have been impossible to mount an assault from that direction using battering rams or siege towers.

They look like ragged street urchins in their rumpled clothes and battered boots, and were probably bought their penny treats in return for posing for the photographer.

A market place since at least 1235, the west side shown here survives much better than the north side.

fluctated with time, and week-enders and in-comers now make up a large part of the old village.The village was once nicknamed 'the goose village', because it was said that geese from Pendleton tasted better

Now it is a valuable habitat for wild birds, but before piped water came, this pool was a better water supply than some of the town wells.

Here, in Arguments Yard, the house on the right is derelict, the stone stairs have seen better days and the outside toilet looks ready to collapse.

The tower is a massive D-shaped structure protected at ground level from attack either from battering ram or undermining by two spur bastions. The tower performed a dual function.

He did realise, however, that upgrading the facilities would attract a better class of visitor – cultured, refined but above all wealthy and willing to spend freely.

Tarmac replaced cobbles, and drab concrete street lamps got the better of the ornate standards in this picture.

A famous resident from the 12th century was Gerald de Barri, born here in 1146, and better known to us as Giraldus Cambrensis, the author of the 'Itinerary of Wales'.

The aim was the sale of goods at market prices; what would have been the retailer's profit was divided between the membership in proportion to their purchases - better known to most of us as divi day.

Attridge's (right) is now Grendon Stores, and the plot in the foreground now has a 1980s house, a better design than the dull bungalows on the left of about 1960.

Both the Crescent (built 1780-84) and the Great Stables (built 1789) were designed by Carr for the fifth Duke of Devonshire; the Great Stables are somewhat better known in their present guise as the Royal

It is actually in better shape now than when this picture was taken; it has been landscaped to remove centuries of growth.

Here, in Arguments Yard, the house on the right is derelict, the stone stairs have seen better days and the outside toilet looks ready to collapse.

Note the Golden Leg just down from Brinsmead Pianos - what better place to sup some ale after a hard day's graft in Westgate Street.

Until the 1840s Paignton was a farming village half a mile inland, producing cider and the then famous Paignton cabbage, but it became popular with convalescents and its beach - longer and better than

The island is now laid out as a private park, and much better managed that in the period when this view was taken.

Trade is quiet; one hopes the large stall well-stocked with boots and shoes has done better business earlier.

Princes Street fares somewhat better, although the creeper-clad Georgian house beyond the shop on the right was rebuilt in 1950s Neo-Georgian.

Closer in, you can look down on Weston Bay and Weston-super-Mare to the north: it is probably better not to look too closely at the holiday sprawl along the road back to Burnham-on-Sea.

Rather than admire this tarmac desert, it is better to turn through 180º to see, and if possible visit, the Golders Green Hippodrome, designed by Bertie Crew in 1913.