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This is locally known as Back Lane, and leads to Waterside Path.

Perhaps the man with his back to us is on his way to stake his claim.

In 1951 it was bought by the Carmelite Order and used as a 'desert house' for its members - here the sisters could spend a year in contemplation before going back to their professional lives.

Back into Whitehall, our tour continues north to Trafalgar Square, which was laid out in the 1820s; numerous houses in front of St Martin-in-the-Fields church were demolished.

The pub dates back to about 1640.

The timber-framed Tudor House, one of the city's finest buildings, dates back to about 1500, and has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

St Nicholas has a recorded history going back to the 13th century.

A barefoot boy with a stick guides two donkeys back to their stand on the pullover.

It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000—the Post Office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

The arrival of the railway in 1867, and the 1872 National Bank Holiday Act, opened Walton up to everybody.

There are here a commodious pier, and a sandy beach well supplied with bathing machines, donkeys, minstrels, and the like attractions for the amusement of the Bank Holiday crowds.

The Maer was once a golf course for the town, but it was allowed to revert back to wilderness in the 1950s.

With Kipling's 'blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs' surrounding it, the village runs up a valley from the sea, climaxing beyond the High Street on the Green with its pond, where Kipling lived.

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.

This is one of the ponds, Banks Pond, on the main east-west road through the village; the scene is relatively unchanged, although out of view to the left is now a parade of 1960s shops.

Banks are now found in Eastgate Street, on the left-hand side of this picture, which eventually leads to the under-cover Kings Walk shops.

From Wells to Blakeney, a great sand barrier holds back all but the most vicious tides.

Here we see the Grammar School from another angle, looking from East Road back into the city.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.

Here we look east along the River Witham, flowing out of Brayford Pool, with the High Street reached by steps from each bank.

There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel.

The inn on the banks of the river was two cottages and a shop in 1840.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods.