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The revival in pleasure boats on the canals has brought back a lot of life to the area.

One such course hired a full military band - try timing shots to the strains of 'Annie Laurie' - but Braid got his own back on the last green when he put his ball straight through the big bass drum.

Now, thanks to cut-backs, post offices disappear like ghosts into the night.

The pub dates back at least to the 18th century, and parts of the building are even older. It stood beside the Poole Turnpike road from 1756.

To the left of the Market Hall is the back of the former Court House.

We return up London Road to the Wheat Sheaf and turn right into New Street, formerly called Lichfield Street, which takes us back to the Market Place.

Ye Olde Harrow Inn back entrance has a bacon shop on the left. The pub has now merged with the Barleycorn on the Buckingham Street corner and is archly renamed the Farmyard and Firkin.

The pond dates back to at least the 16th century, and is associated with the Manors of Chislehurst, Scadbury and St Paul's Cray.

The Village 1923 Once back to the A39, continue east, and about a mile west of Minehead, turn left to descend into Bratton, a tucked- away village with an excellent 15th- century manor house,

Here we see a section of the canal at Greenberfield Locks, just before it enters the town.This is the highest point that the canal reaches.The revival in pleasure boats on the canals has brought back

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.

This beautifully-composed view looks back to the town from the breakwater. The old town clings to the steep hillside, and the beginning of the famous Barmouth Bridge is visible on the right.

Backed by the tall 52-year-old buildings of the Esplanade, the Parade was Rhyl's only real attempt at elegant seaside architecture.

This 'Happy Days' wagonette or country-style horse bus, harking back to transport in earlier days, is taking a party on a jaunt on a sunny day.

He made a collection of all the local words in his area, and thereby saved for posterity words now long since out of use – words going back to our Viking heritage.

I recall leaving my school cap on one of them one morning and racing back to get it!

Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.

In front is the 1911 grave of Villebois, a horse wounded in the Boer War and brought back to England by Lord Chesham.

A barefoot boy with a stick guides two donkeys back to their stand on the pullover.

The Maer was once a golf course for the town, but it was allowed to revert back to wilderness in the 1950s.

With Kipling's 'blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs' surrounding it, the village runs up a valley from the sea, climaxing beyond the High Street on the Green with its pond, where Kipling lived.

Behind the tearoom, the village shop, now closed, was once an inn with stables and yard running back from the road.