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This was Winchelsea's north east gate and lay by the banks of the River Brede (hence the name). It dates from the early fourteenth century.

He was presented with the manors of Fenstanton and Hilton by the Earl of Northampton in payment for work at Castle Ashby.

The subterranean public conveniences by the Ovaltine poster have now been replaced by a neat hipped roofed above-ground facility.

Horsham was described as a borough in the early 13th century, and it had become one of the chief towns in the county by the 17th and 18th centuries.

The area opposite the Town Hall was redeveloped in the late 1950s by the Arndale Property Trust in association with Shingler Risdon Associates.

By the mid nineteen-sixties the grime of a coal fire age is beginning to be cleaned off.

Go back to the Avon valley, turn right at the traffic lights by the Viaduct Inn, then left towards Lower Limpley Stoke.

Note the pram parked by the spring.

This was given impetus by the visit of the Empress of Germany and the discovery of spa water in 1891.

The Australian connection is remembered by the memorial tablet and window given by Australia, and there are numerous gravestones in the churchyard of Flinders's relations.

By the 1920s, promenaders along Undercliff Drive had to cope with a modest increase in motor traffic, though the majority of visitors preferred to walk or cycle.

The gun was originally sited by the trees which we can see alongside Barclays Bank.

To the right is the grandiose Italianate bank of 1883 by the noted architect John Gibson, now the Natwest Bank; its fine banking hall has recently been very well restored.

By the 15th century silting had brought trade to a halt.

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fowey, the 'Troy Town' popularised by the Victorian writer Quiller Couch, is blessed with a spacious natural harbour, and was once one of the foremost seaports of Britain.

The house was started by the 1st Lord Compton, later the Earl of Northampton, in 1574. Look closely, and you will see that the parapet along the top balustrade has a carved Latin inscription.

On Sunday 13 November 1887, a crowd of twenty thousand was dispersed by the Life Guards and Grenadier Guards with fixed bayonets, after defying a police order against public processions approaching the

To the east of the village, we see a timeless view of an industry wiped out by the growth of the national railway system.

By the time of the Great War they were obsolete.

Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here

Fawkham's church, repaired and reseated by the Victorians, has a wooden tower and Norman windows.

Judging by the crowd gathering on the beach, it looks as though a seaside concert party will shortly be giving a performance.

Most of Market Street was taken up by the now demolished Red Lion.