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Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A walk along the downlands around Long Bredy shows this to be a very old landscape, with barrows and monoliths from prehistory and ridge paths from more recent times.

For a very long time Whitby did not have such a thing as a fish shop, as the fishermen themselves supplied their wives, and most locals bought their fish from Jack Gash and his barrow

Barrow has an excellent public library, and the building has the same appearance today. It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

Many ships have been constructed in Barrow. This crane is still in use, and can be seen from many parts of the town. Here, it is being used in the fitting out of the Oronsay in Buccleuch Dock.

Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex. In the picture the Stores has a sign offering 'Morning coffee and light refreshments,Teas'.

Running north to south with closely built houses of all ages, the High Street of this quaintly composed village is set in a large parish rich in vernacular architecture, ancient burial barrows

This is still a distinct village, with lanes winding uphill, although the wall on the right has now been replaced by a 1970s close, Titan Barrow, the name perpetuating a house of 1748 by Wood the Elder

Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow. Lane End is the crossroads in the centre of the picture.

It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms - in the watchful presence of priests - to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that

The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

The church tower presides over the east end of Fore Street, where two prams and a barrow are the only wheeled traffic on a sunny day.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.

For many years the river at Barrow has possessed a watery magnetism which has drawn people from the city to its banks on warm summer days, either to enjoy a picnic, or to venture onto the

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

knick-knacks; family parties, encamped with umbrellas and novels; eager children, sprawling babies and their nurses, and scores of adventurous youngsters seriously labouring in the sand with spade and wheel-barrow

Here, a local passenger train is on the up line for Barrow, having left Grange station.

Lewis`s (left) has a fine array of braziers, bins and barrows outside. This was an old-fashioned ironmonger`s that kept its nails and screws in small drawers behind the counter.

A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden. She kept her Rolls-Royce in the barn.

We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.

This was once a magnificent chambered long barrow that was covered with a brilliant white chalk mound. It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.

Ivy-covered Littlemore Cottage (left) stands beside the stream from Water Barrows; gritty heathstone- walled 17th-century Cockles Cottage is on the right.