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At Domesday, the manor was held by the Abbot of St Benedict`s, Ramsey, and the parish had a population of about 150.

This shopping complex with its sweeping lines still contains large national shops, and seems unthreatened by the new Ridings Centre, off to the left down Southgate.

This was one of a series of propaganda postcards, issued by the campaigning 1943 Committee and Tyneham Action Group which achieved the opening of weekend paths - the Lulworth Range Walks -

In the distance is the church, partly obscured by the Hospital of the Holy Trinity founded in 1573 by Sir William Cordell of Long Melford Hall.

The sand boxes still stood by the side of the road until recent years.

It was the home of the Arundell family, but it is now owned by the National Trust.

The school was founded in 1859 by the trustees of Thomas Howell, a cloth merchant, who left a legacy of 12,000 gold ducats for the 'education of orphaned Welsh maidens'.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

The kiosk has now been replaced by the 1980s Boat House café.

By the 13th century, as a result of visits by various kings to nearby Freemantle, where King Henry II built a royal hunting lodge, it had become known as 'Kyngescler.'

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday

The earliest of Snaith's three manors existed in 1086, and for most of its early life was owned by the Crown.

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

An historic herb garden, open to the public, is cared for here by the National Trust.

The castle is unusual in that it was built in the lower part of the village; it is now overlooked by the church at Kirby Hill.

Barnoldswick is pronounced 'Barlick' by the locals.This is another village that has moved with boundary changes.

By the mid 1970s, the mill had stopped working, and the both the mill and barn are now private residences.

By the 1860s it was causing considerable traffic congestion and there were heated debates in the press about its future. It was finally removed in 1878 and re-erected at Waltham Cross.

The Westminster Bank (third building in from either side of the picture) seems busy enough, judging by the cars parked outside.

It might derive from a triple knot design used by the Norse-Irish kings of Dublin, or from the swastika.

By the banks of the Dee. Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.

Leaving town by the line of the present existing Old Bedford Road, it crossed the river by a ford on the town side of Little Moor.

Today (in 1999), the site is occupied by The Bike Shed; the garage has moved to the edge of town as a Renault agent.

In medieval times the town boasted a castle, a port and a church, which were overwhelmed by the sands in the early 16th century.