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The lane leads down to Fore Street.

There was once a railway running down the middle of this street and around the corner at the end. It went to Westward Ho! and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.

A little further down, however, it surges over a weir where a watermill used to stand.

Looking down Gloucester Street, this view shows St Peter's in the distance. This 15th-century church is noted for its grotesque gargoyles. The interior was substantially renovated in 1872.

Havant is a busy little town overlooking Langstone Harbour; its church recalls the time of Roman and Norman invaders.

Down the hill to the left lie the delights of the Logan Rock Inn, while turning right after the telephone box leads to a beautiful campsite high above Porthcurno beach.

Its claim to fame is the Barn Stone - a huge granite boulder swept down from Scotland during the last Ice Age.

We now start to go down the Frimley Road, and this is the junction with Edward Avenue.

The original family home burnt down in a fierce blaze on Christmas Day 1845.

From Castle Hill we look down on the Esplanade, with the Beach Hotel in the middle distance.

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.

It is reported that a farmer knocked down the stones in 1690. The trees have now been removed.

this pleasant view looks down the main street from the path beside the church. On the left-hand side of the road we can see the Ship inn, and also a sign for Regent petrol.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).

Alexander, Duke of Albany, managed to kill his gaolers and escaped down a rope made of sheets.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

In this quintessential holiday scene a pleasure craft hoists its sail ready to carry a party of trippers up and down the coast.

The view was taken looking down Church Road from Cartmel Road by the crossroads, and is still much the same in appearance.

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

This photograph looks down Bank Street towards the High Street and the River Medway. This street is known for its fine timber buildings, many with a conspicuous overhang.

The Britannia Pier has had a exciting life, having been burnt down at least three times, once by suffragettes. In front of the pier is a 'Noah's Ark' fun ride.

This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards.