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It is some twenty years on from photograph number 44810, and West Bay has changed little.

Having completed our tour of the central part of the city, this chapter provides an itinerary taking in the best of the great terraces, squares and crescents that were developed to its north.

This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House.

The River Almond flows from Blackburn to the three towns of East, Mid and West Calder.

This view looks towards Back Road West.

On Sunday 6 February 1955, the last passenger train went along the Meon Valley line.

The fine embattled western tower of Holy Trinity houses a clock and one bell.

Situated five miles north-west of Middleton-in-Teesdale, High Force offers stunning scenery and the spectacular sight of the Tees plunging some seventy feet over the cliffs of Great Whin Sill.

A room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d, with dinner at 6s a head, which put it in the same price as the Grand in Cornwall Road, but more expensive than the West Park, where rooms were from 3s, and dinner

The High Street again, and a much busier scene is shown.

Well-designed bollards and street signs front a typical road-house at the junction of the Great North Road with the lesser east-west Elstree to Chipping Barnet Road.

Continuing north-west towards Felbridge from the Moat Road junction we see the Italianate Church of Our Lady and St Peter, looking south east.

It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side.

An interesting view showing the sharp contrast between the original or 'old' Saltburn and the 'new' or Victorian Saltburn which was built upon the west cliff opposite the original cluster

A fine prospect of Caterham, taken looking west from the steep scarp slope of the north downs above Crescent Road.

This is the corner of St Anne's Road West and Garden Street (right) before it was fully surfaced.

In the background we can see the many hills that surround Gloucester, giving way to all routes north, south, east and west.

This is the corner of St Anne's Road West and Garden Street (right) before it was fully surfaced.

Worthing, yet another fishing village turned seaside resort, developed in fits and starts with little overall coherence but some attractive accents.

East of Gravesend, near where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea, is Sheerness, a port and seaside resort on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

Purton was a small settlement to the west of Swindon.

With a population of only about 250, Colerne is a small hill village with a superb church that has a slender Perpendicular west tower; it commands a magnificent elevation overlooking the village

Beyond the ornamental lych gate framed by these cottages is the church of St Mary and St Cuthberga, whose brown and grey stone west tower is Perpendicular.

The west tower was heightened in 1861, but the lower part is 13th-century, or perhaps even earlier, as the walls here are 6ft thick and there is also a garderobe chamber.