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Little survives of the old town, although parts of the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its origins.

In the background is the Old College Hotel, a name that echoes back to the founding of the College of Jesus by the Archbishop of York in 1500.

How many of these men came back wounded to be cared for at Frensham Military Hospital, based at a large mansion, Frensham Heights?

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again.

A number of retailers and farmers had produce rounds in Alderley, delivering groceries, dairy produce and even wines and spirits to the door, or rather, the back door.

Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge.

Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.

There were even plans in the early seventies to convert the outbuildings at the back into an 11-bedroom hotel.

The back of the Carbis Bay Hotel can be seen on the left.

Later, the gateway would be moved back level with the Hall.

The huge saddle-backed tower is in an unusual position, north of the nave, and architecturally it is interesting for its fortified appearance.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

Ogden Reservoir, north-west of Illingworth in West Yorkshire, dammed the waters of the Hebble Brook, and is now backed by the wind farm on Ovenden Moor.

In the foreground is the railway, and further back stands the church of St Mary the Virgin.

This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

At the junction with Paternoster Row, Cheapside swings from the north in an arc and heads east towards the Bank.

The fisher women of Newlyn clustered at the fish-stalls with their 'cowels', baskets carried on their backs, which were supported by a band passed round their foreheads.

These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open seas.

Further north-west the photographer looks back towards the town centre past the Moat Road junction to Moat Church, the Congregational Church opened in 1870, now the United Reformed Church and its unusual

Small inshore fishing boats are drawn up at the back of the harbour, where two jetties were built in the 1890s to provide shelter and encourage this local industry.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs.

On the extreme right, partly visible, is the entrance to the local Conservative club, and on the left is the facade of the National Provincial Bank, now Nat West.

As the town's popularity as a holiday resort grew, Victorian streets and shops spread back from the sea.