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These were the days when blazers and boaters were de rigeur for a trip down the river to Eccleston.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

A favourite walk is down the valley between the rivers Calder and Ribble. The climb to the pass of Nick o' Pendle is another favourite.

The photograph shows an area to the south of the original village as it drops down towards Tally Ho Corner, but just a little to the north, among the modern shops, are 18th-century houses and a fine 16th-century

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

This photograph gives us the opportunity to look down the street and into Hargreaves Street, where the GPO stands (54191, page 46).

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

Near to this bridge in 1860, a fight took place that has gone down in the history of boxing as one of the important fights of the century.

A delivery boy rests with his bicycle between rounds on the right, while down the street a policeman looks out for traffic to direct.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

This view down into Flint is noteworthy for a number of reasons. We can see the heavy industrial scene, the chimney stacks and the Courtaulds building in the distance (left).

By 1891 the local fleet was down to 174 boats employing 860 men and boys with an annual catch valued at just under £3000.

They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions. The Prideaux garage remains, although their agencies now seem to be Jaguar and Austin.

This building was erected in 1911 when the original inn burnt down. There has been an inn on this site since the 12th century; it was originally a cider house, part of an orchard.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

We are looking down the street in the opposite direction to photograph B672001, with the Forge Hammer now on the right.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and