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The sunken car park (left) and the railings (right) provide a visible clue to the course of the old canal tunnel.

But for a small section of the castle, the church remains the only tangible link with the old town's medieval past.

Here we see the eastern end of the High Street, with the wall of the Congregational Church on the right.

Situated on Abbey Street next to the Swan Hotel, the New Jerusalem Church was one of the most striking buildings in the town.

The decision was made to demolish the building and in its place build a multi-purpose church (in Hargreaves Street, see photograph A19722), and the demolition of the church began in June 1987.

Garth Dawson's Camera Cabin, located behind the clock (centre, behind the bus), has had several locations around the centre of Accrington, and is now sited round the corner on Blackburn

Once wheeled out to a suitable depth, these examples, right of photograph, enabled the bather to maintain his or her modesty while plunging in.

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

The White Lion Hotel on the right is still there today, and so is W D Cunliffe the grocers and bakers (telephone 123). Next to them, out of the picture, is now the Clitheroe Information Centre.

William the Conqueror's original royal fortress was a wooden tower on the motte, which in later generations would form the upper bailey.

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.

The architect was Henry Kennedy of London, and the clock maker a local man, Mr Edward Edwards. The clock was erected in 1873 by the Marquis of Londonderry to celebrate his son's coming of age.

It was in 1789 that it was first given the name of Mary Arden's House, reflecting a local tradition that it had been the home of Shakespeare's mother before her marriage.

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.

It was built as long ago as 1480; more recently, in 1919 it became the home of the actress Ellen Terry. Today it is a National Trust Memorial to Miss Terry.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.

He had stayed the night at Stoneyhurst, and it took most of the day for the horses, mules and men to cross.

At this time these shops would close at noon on Saturday, and Sunday opening was unheard of.