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Little survives of the old town, although parts the former Greyfriars church of St John, where Robert the Bruce held a Parliament in 1315, are thought to date back to its beginnings.The 130 ft high neo-Gothic

What remained of the old building was the brick west tower dating back to around 1635.

The parish church of Saint Margaret and Saint Andrew dates back to at least 1146, and there may have been an earlier Saxon church on the site.

The church contains many brasses of men and women who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries; the chancel has delicate 15th-century screens, Jacobean altar rails and low arcades dating back

The Highland Fling hotel and café (left) spent some years as an extremely large antiquarian bookshop and antiques centre before reverting back to being a café.

The large extension at the back of the inn (right) contained seven bedrooms with doors onto the beach.

They had been around for some time before that, however, perhaps as far back as the reign of Athelstan in the 10th century, and they held the manor until 1780.

The Village Hall is set back on the left beyond the forge. The River Brett runs parallel to the road over to the right.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

We are looking back across the Wye to the village. A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate.

The pillar box still exists, although it has been moved back against the wall.

Here we move back to the west of the High Street. This view looks along Cheam Road, with the Cheam Road Hall on the right.

We are looking back up the lane with the river behind us. On the right is part of the George Hotel, as it was then.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

Set back is the Vine Church, a Baptist Chapel rebuilt in 1868.

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

There are records of bull bait- ing in Ashburton as far back as 1174.

village, camp and caravan site with associated amuse- ment arcades that have grown from the glorious expanse of Camber sands, where the tide goes out for over half a mile, leaving a wide sandy beach backed

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open sea.

One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.