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Originally a separate village from Broadstairs and taking its name from the medieval church, this small collection of shops and houses lies inland from the sea.

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

A little over a mile from shore, this imposing granite tower, 62 feet in height, rises out of a cauldron of furious waves. It was originally built in 1795. The one seen here was built in 1873.

One such occupant was Lillie Thomas, an honorary Commander of the Red Cross who did sterling work organising local facilities for the convalescence of the wounded home from the First World War.

The 'Cambrian Traveller's Guide' of 1813 was a little sceptical, pointedly recording that 'the village contains a castle of somewhat modern construction'.

It was built in 1900 as a workhouse for the Hursley District Council at the northern end of Hursley Road.

In 1871 W Harrison, secretary of the Birmingham Gas Co, certainly did his stuff; he cooked the books and made off with £18,000.When the company was dissolved, £100 was left in the kitty for Harrison

Broadstairs, a well-known resort on the Isle of Thanet between Margate and Ramsgate, retains its village atmosphere.

The Bridge House Hotel, seen to the left of the bridge, claimed that it was the only top class hotel in Eton. It was demolished in 1964 and a new restaurant has taken its place.

Behind are the chimneys of its vicarage, while on the right is the church hall gable, now demolished for the modern close of houses, Trapp Court.

Chorleywood is on the south side of the Chess valley. Chorleywood Common survived an attempt at enclosure and we see it here in its late 19th-century gorse-covered state.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

The three-storey framed building on the left must have been very new when this photograph was taken.

It is interesting to remember that a settlement existed on this site for nearly two millennia before the foundation of neighbouring Bournemouth.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

A number of Stradling family members fought for King Charles I during the Civil War, including Sir Edward Stradling, who commanded a Welsh regiment at the Battle of Edgehill (23 October 1642), where he

Lord's Mill was one of the main watermills along the Chess south-east of Chesham and is behind the photographer who is looking over the Moor Lane bridge parapet.

During the 1950s the site of Barlborough Colliery was cleared, but in 1955 there was an attempt by the NCB to re- open Southgate Colliery in Clowne.

All Saints' Church dominates the scene, and the only change is the removal of the smaller second cottage of Long Croft, left. It is now a drive for the adjacent gable-ended Rose Cottage.

Shepley is situated to the south of Huddersfield.

Now let out as 'honeymoon cottages' (fully booked for Valentine's Day 2003), they have a new lease of life.

Here we have another view of the White Bull Hotel, with Thomas, the grocer's, J N Kelley, and G L Owen the newsagent's nearby. A weekly farmers' market is held in the Square.

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.