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The church itself dates from Saxon and Norman times, when the village was an important centre of the Royal Forest of the Peak, a hunting preserve of Norman monarchs.

We can see horses trotting through the village (centre).

Note the abundant cigarette advertising in the shops in King Street, and the steam roller at the bottom of the street (centre).

To the south is a new development with its own shopping centre.

The building in the centre, just to the left of the lamp standard, is the Staines Iron Works.

Wreaths are laid at the war memorial seen at the centre of the picture.

The Poultry Cross is just visible, left of centre.

The library is housed on the first floor of the new centre, leaving the ground floor for retailers.

On the left is the gable end of Hildreds Hotel - demolished in 1987 - and at the centre are what were then the newly-built underground lavatories with a domed ventilator surmounted by a street lamp.

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.

To the centre right we can just see the opening of Mortimer Lane, which leads to Bishops Waltham and to Marwell Zoo.

Now 'Knuston Hall Conference Centre and College of Adult Education,' it is well known for its thatching courses.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

The road is still the A52, with a few bends in the village centre.

Cockermouth was granted its market charter in 1221, and gradually developed in importance, until it was the chief commercial centre of the old county of Cumberland.

For many years the facility operated as one of the primary treatment centres for tuberculosis in Britain.

At the top of the flight is a Visitor Centre with plenty of information, and it is possible to walk down the flight.

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

Here, in an otherwise lonely valley, we can see the Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station in the centre, with employees' housing in the distance.

The laundrette is there today, and The Fruiterers (centre) has become the Fruit Garden.

In the centre is a motorbike and sidecar, a popular and affordable form of transport.

On the left is the Sugarloaf Hotel, its sign recalling the town's heyday as a coaching centre.