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In this picture we see senior citizens enjoying the game, all wearing caps to protect their heads. A single-decker bus can be seen in the background.

Rather curiously, the High Street turns sharp right at this road junction, and heads down to the beach. The road in the centre distance is the Coast Road to Redcar.

Ardleigh Green Road reaches the Southend Arterial Road (A127) and beyond is Squirrel's Heath Road heading for Harold Wood.

Crown House started life as The King's Head.

Once known as Fyfield Street, or just The Street, this end of the village now takes its name from The Queen's Head pub.

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

On the left is the cliff-like Dynevor House, with 1725 on the rainwater hopper-heads, three storeys of box sashes and a corniced parapet.

This photograph looks from the railway bridge towards the King's Head in Bulmer Road. On the left, the second house with the lower roof has been demolished.

have belonged to King Harold, and hidden during the Battle of Hastings.The pump house, dated 1900, was a centre of village life before piped mains water supplies.An iron cage protects the ornate lead

The carved heads of Bishop Arundel and King Richard II are in the church porch.

All was much restored by Pearson in the 1880s: he added the battlements, for example. The left-hand and centre archways are least altered.

Sandown was one of the earliest forts to be built with an arrow-head bastion, which enabled the guns to have wider arcs of fire.

This one gives vehicle access, but if we head north away from the road we will find ourselves in one of the finest areas of the park.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

Saints church, West Rasen is noted for its 15th-century pack horse bridge which crosses the River Rase, from which the Rasens are named, and which descends from The Wolds to merge with the Ancholme to head

The red lion standing at the corner (left) is a figure-head from a Dutch ship wrecked off Cuckmere Haven in the 19th century.

During the season, open-air services were held at Douglas Head, and of course there were the tremendously popular services at Kirk Braddan, some of which are said to have attracted congregations approaching

Douglas Head Lighthouse was erected in 1892, replacing the sixty year old Red Pier light. In 1786 Douglas harbour lighthouse had been destroyed during a storm and not rebuilt.

Once an inland port, Botley stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble. Barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

They are heading south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel. At Braunston the canal drops sharply through six locks.

Here the photographer looks downhill along High Street from the Church Street/Heathfield Road junction past Ye King's Head, then a commercial hotel - its ground floor was altered in the 1890s.

A painted inscription on the wall claims that The Saracen's Head was built in the 11th century. However, the present building dates mainly from the 15th century.

Perhaps it is a Sunday and they are heading for church.

Saints' Church, West Rasen is noted for its 15th-century pack horse bridge which crosses the River Rase, from which the Rasens are named, and which descends from The Wolds to merge with the Ancholme to head