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Boating is still popular here, although these days it is usually rowers, singly and in groups, that one sees racing up and down the river. The house is called Ferry Farm.

The prosperity of the town is evident in its grand commercial frontage.

This view was taken in the middle of the village, and is looking down Updown Hill.

Frith's photographer was looking west down the High Street from the Town Hall roof. In the far distance the road curves into Ock Street, which is also lined by old buildings.

Among the market traders who used to draw the crowds were Mrs Gee, who literally sold crockery at knock down prices by shouting out the price and banging on an old tea chest.

In this early view there is minimal security fencing out on the heath of Goonhilly Downs. British Telecom now controls around 40 large and small communications dishes over a large site.

The firm lasted until it went into receivership in 1910 and closed down.

The cobbled street passes Oak House, one of the oldest houses in Rye; it dates from the 15th century, and replaced an earlier house that burnt down in 1377.

Singleton was one of the model villages built up and down the country in the 19th century: Squire Miller provided St Anne's Church, picturesque cottages for the workers, and the much photographed little

The wearing of white coats was introduced in some towns during the Second World War; it gave the policeman at least a sporting chance of not being run down during the blackout.

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

It passed down through the Jocelyn family, whose monuments can be seen in the church of St Mary the Great. Hyde Hall was extended in 1806 and completely refurbished in 1869.

The local Board of Health had put their foot down over the amount of debris that the market was depositing in the High Street every Friday. It was February 1880 when the new site opened.

It was built on the site of Mother Downes' charming thatched cottage in 1870 and was much enlarged ­twenty years later.

Positioned cosily under the downs, and with its cluster of thatched and slate-roofed cottages around it, the Perpendicular tower of St Lawrence's Church rises above the surrounding gravestones.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

Here we see the brick tower mill, with a replacement roof in place of a cap, in a stripped-down and derelict condition. The photograph was taken from a nearby watermill site.

The new Britannia Pier opened in 1901 with a temporary pavilion, which was pulled down to make way for a permanent pavilion a year later. It fell victim to fire in 1909, though it was replaced.

The butcher's shop is interesting in that it is open on two sides; the butcher either cuts his meat in the street, or he has brought the block out to swill it down.

The cows are lying down, a sure sign of rain, the old saying goes, but whether this is true or false they add a picturesque finishing touch to a watery scene.

The pedestrian route to Shugborough still passes down the lane, beneath the railway bridge of 1848, over the canal and across Essex Bridge.

The smaller bridge to the right crosses the old boat slide, a weir bypass for rowing boats, an exciting and brief run down rollers from the upper river to the lower, and once common on the River Thames

Just beyond, down the road, is J J Bacon's Stores. The village has a wealth of old houses, including a row of Kentish weatherboard cottages flanking the side of the parish church.

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.