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The industry started in Honiton around the time of Queen Elizabeth I, and by the 1700s there were an amazing 4.695 people in the area engaged in the trade. Even by 1852 there were still 4,104.

This may indicate that it is older than other settlements in the region; or it may be that there were many other Celtic settlements, but their names were supplanted by the Anglo-Saxon ones we are familiar

Warren Drive with its neat bungalows and semi-detached homes provides the northern border of the Elm Park Estate, an impressive residential development inspired by the extension of the District Line

Bridgnorth has always been divided in two: High Town on a defensive position on the hill, and Low Town for traders by the river.

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.

The mill has been owned by the Rackham family for several generations; they were maltsters, water and steam millers, and animal food and coal merchants.

This wonderful location must have been rather distracting for the students of 'The College by the Sea'.

Small motor boats and cabin cruisers are moored by the river banks near the boat house. There is a warning to go dead slow as they pass the boat house.

Lansdowne Terrace, a long Italianate terrace facing the Wish Tower, was built in the 1860s with its centre spanned by a wide triangular pediment; it was soon mostly colonised by the Lansdowne Private

The Helen Garden, opened in September 1933, was given to the town by the late Mrs Helen Reid Stewart Hornby Lewis, as a plaque informs us.

It has two large villas and a Methodist Chapel built by the well-known architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, most famous as the designer of the city of New Delhi.

The church was built at about the same time as the castle by the Bishop of Chichester, Ralph I (1091-1123) - he also built Chichester Cathedral.

3147 miles from New York, England's most westerly point was named Belerion, or Seat of Storms, by the Romans.

The water channels were filled in by the 1970s. One granary was converted to offices in the 1980s, and the remainder is being used as a pottery.

It was built in the early 19th century as a corn and grist mill, and was run by the firm Henry Moore and Son when this picture was taken. It fell into disuse, and is now mostly demolished.

Its strategic importance was immense, as was borne out by the prolonged fight for it during the Civil War. The most impressive feature still standing is the castle's magnificent gatehouse.

The Library and adjacent buildings on the left are of more recent date than those on the right because there was a regular problem with flooding on this side of the road, caused by the local Bourne stream

The trees by the entrance to the ground, left, have been replaced by an expanded parking area.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather's Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

It was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by the house which now stands on the site.

In 1866 Bishop Olliphant of Llandaff dedicated the present church, which was designed by Fripps of Bristol and built by the Penarth builder David Jones for the sum of £2,600.

By the mid 1960s the boat hire business has boomed, judging from this photograph. Also the pleasure boat rides are increasingly popular, as they are to this day.

The Baths, opened by the Duchess of Teck in 1895, used brine recently discovered under Stafford Common during the search for a good water supply.

Allowed out during the day, the prisoners at Chesterfield were summoned back to quarters by the ringing of a curfew bell from St Mary's.