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The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

Much of this area is unchanged today: it is an attractive combination of golden stone buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Town Hall with its clock is on the left.

Bisley's church of St John the Baptist dates back to the 13th century, and it has a 15th-century porch believed to be made from a single oak.

The attractive heath, with its colourful heathers and gorse, reach down to a village boasting several buildings constructed of exquisite brickwork.

Much of what remains is Norman and Early English; the mighty tower was rebuilt in the 13th century. A piece of original Axminster carpet hangs within.

It was in this house on the left that Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

Three of the famous Liverpool ferry boats are leaving the landing stage.

A fine study of the cathedral with the huge west front dominating the scene. Perhaps the most famous symbol of the Anglican church, it is a dominant landmark for many miles around.

This is a river-side view of the huge, crescent-shaped weir constructed above Arkwright's Masson Mill on the River Derwent, with the tree-topped tor of Willersley Rocks filling the background

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

The typical white-weatherboarded and tile-roofed cottages of the region characterise this ridge-top hamlet north- east of Wadhurst.

Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, immortalised in 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', was born at Cowes in 1796.

In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.

Here we have a fine example of a black Kentish smock windmill in its heyday, and an early photograph of a windmill in full working order. The mill has now completely gone.

Just a few miles south of the industrial Midlands, Redditch became famous for the manufacture of needles, fishhooks and bicycles.

The little white tower of the late lamented Majestic Cinema of 1922 rises in the middle distance.

Cobham stands on Watling Street and was once a busy market centre.

A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley. Local legends say that dragons and serpents inhabited the forest.

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.

The railway was built as part of the Cambrian railway, with two stations, Barmouth and Barmouth Junction. Northwards the line went to Harlech and Afonwen, where it joined the L & NWR.

The parish church of All Saints hides its history well. At first glance, the architecture is 19th century and confirms the rebuilding during 1860.

But the course of young love went smoothly; there was a wedding at St Martin's in 1856, with an epic reception at the grandstand afterwards, and Isabella became Mrs Beeton.