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There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

They telegraphed back 'SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE DEATH STOP.

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274.

Partly bare stone and partly whitewashed, and with numerous stone-mullioned windows, its cross passage is behind the two-storey porch.

A footbridge now spans the river between the two and there has been extensive development on both banks of the river.

The site was redeveloped as Barclays Bank and several shops, while the former Wilts and Dorset Bank to its left is now Lloyds TSB.

This group of children and their parents or nannies is enjoying the sun and fresh air on the bank of the River Deben.

The building beyond, between it and the Queen Anne style bank, was demolished about 1930 and replaced by a smart Moderne stone-fronted Midland Bank.

To create the large tunnel entrance and the lead-up area, many back-to-back houses had to be pulled down; the town's library also had to be demolished.

Even a simple sandpit was a novelty in an age before sandpits were common in back gardens.

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.

The spire, seen here from the back of the church, has been a landmark for mariners for centuries.

The most notorious abbot of Furness Abbey was undoubtedly Alexander Banks.

On the left, Marks and Spencer established a bazaar in 1932, later enlarging and heightening the building several times.

Then a bank, it is now an estate agents.

To the left of centre are Blackbourn's shoe shop and the Nat West Bank, partly hidden by trees.

By the time this photograph was taken, Crowthorne was firmly established as a community, though the centre of the village really only dates back to the 1860s.

The smaller lake, for younger children, was separated from the larger one by a hump-backed bridge (K13007, pages 76-77).

An old custom at Formby was the carrying of a corpse three times round the Godstone in the belief that it prevented the dead from coming back to haunt their relatives.

In the distance is the parish church of St Wilfred's, which is noted for its Norse hog-back gravestones and a Norse font dating from the 11th century.

Its list of vicars goes back to 1316, and it records bishops back to the 7th century.

Dunham Mill dates back to the medieval period; it was one of only a handful of mills in this part of Cheshire.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.