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This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

The deck-chair audience listens to the band. The view looks across the Pavilion (top left), which became the Ritz Theatre and was destroyed by fire in the 1950s.

This view shows the prospect as revealed through the west door, seen in the previous photograph.

This photograph shows the back of the late-Victorian rectory which became the home of the writer George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950, at the age of ninety-four.

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

By now the advent of steam was apparent even in small craft.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.

A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.

Only the feet of the carter are visible, as his horse stands patiently waiting while he unloads part of his wares from the back of his wagon for delivery to the creeper-festooned cottages in this village

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

After a spell as the Hustlers, this pub has reverted to its original name.

After a spell as the Hustlers, this pub has reverted to its original name.

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty. These, judging by the smartness of their dress (complete with pocket handkerchief), are clearly not fishermen.

Chalfont St Giles retains much more of its heritage and character than its southern neighbour, Chalfont St Peter, with a High Street lined with good buildings, a pond and the parish church

Here we get a good view of the banded masonry along the south front. Inspired by the Theodosian Wall at Constantinople, its use at Caernarvon was deliberate and designed to impress.

Off the north side of the High Street, the buildings are encroachments on the market place; Bletchingley had been a borough by the 13th century.

Heawood Hall was a small gentry house in Nether Alderley, once the home of the Hollinsheds, a family that included the 16th-century chronicler who was Shakespeare`s source for many of his

Further up Church Road, we are looking at the backs of 18th-century houses on Church End, the lane which leads to the medieval parish church of St Laud, out of shot to the left.

Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything

Friars Fleet winds along the back of the town and joins the Ouse close by the quay. King's Lynn flourished into one of richest ports in the land in medieval times.