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The Georgian house on the right is interesting. It is probably the last of the dwelling houses here, as most of them are now shops.

This is the monument to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, builder of Burghley House and perhaps the most famous member of the Cecil family.

The premises on the left include a tobacconist, a public house, a grocer, a draper, a TV and radio shop, a ladies' clothes shop and a footwear shop.

Such was the attraction of Hiltingbury Common that a number of roads were cut through the woodlands, and large houses were built here with reasonably large gardens in a pleasant woodland setting.

At one time vessels could thread their way right up to the town quay, and Lostwithiel grew to be second only to Southampton as a port along the southern seabord.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

The ungainly motor vehicle in the centre is still an unusual enough feature for it to be attracting the attention of bystanders.

Some scenes at the seaside never seem to change.

The fishing fleet, having waited patiently for a breeze, can at last set sail in pursuit of the herring.

At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed. The walls once surrounded both the castle and Clifford's Tower.

This is a similar view to No 52811 taken four years earlier. The Holmes Refreshment Rooms was part of the Temperance Hotel, which later became the Dolphin Hotel.

The beach may have been home to bathing machines by day, but at night there were other things going on - in 1853 a raid by customs men revealed 153 casks of smuggled rum and brandy.

Instow grew as a resort town at the mouth of the Torridge in the 1830s, and most of the terraces and villas on the shore in this picture date from then.

Most of Market Street was taken up by the now demolished Red Lion.

This village is popular with visitors to Broadland, with St Catherine's Church and its beautiful hammer-beam roof and painted rood screen dating from 1493.

The town of Romsey is known for its associations with two distinguished Englishmen.

The bugler depicted in the pub sign has been replaced, and the old familiar shutters at the windows have gone. When this photograph was taken, this was a Strong's pub.

At the east end of the town is Alford Mill, a six-storey, five-sail mill built in 1813 by Sam Oxley, an Alford millwright.

Situated at the foot of the South Downs, where the River Stor flows north-west to its confluence with the Arun, Storrington is the only downland settlement that became a small market town.

This is still referred to as the 'new church'—religion in this area goes back 4000 years. The first Christian church at Newers Wood had a moat.

In September the annual Clipping ceremony takes place in Painswick, as it has done for centuries.

Although described in this 1950s photograph as 'The Mill', this sturdy 18th-century cottage at picturesque Ashford in the Water, near Bakewell, looks more like a farmhouse, with its barn and stables on

Virtually joined to Thirsk even fifty years ago, Sowerby was the home of the wealthy, with Sowerby House off to the left, and de Mowbray House at the far end of The Avenue.