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The sands were a two-hour train ride from London. It was a children's summer playground.

Each huntsman brought two horses, riding one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. When hunting was banned in the 1990s the hounds were moved to Greenwells, near Eildon Hall.

The old Toll Bridge, much resented by motorists for the delays caused by cash collection, connected the East and West Ridings, and was bought and made toll free by the council in 1992.

This was originally the West Riding Proprietary School, built at a cost of £15,000 and opened by its President, Earl Fitzwilliam on 6 August 1834.

High on the valley side, old workings can still be seen. Once the price of lead fell after the discovery of cheaper lead from Spain, the population of Reeth halved.

A horseman rides north-eastwards, along what is now St Andrew's Road towards Bradpole, when this was part of that parish before boundary changes brought the northern suburbs into Bridport borough.

This is because on the left about a quarter of a mile away is the entrance to Chailey Heritage, the nationally recognized school for handicapped children, whilst on the opposite side of the

The centre of the bridge marks the boundary of the West Riding and the Ainstey of York - a grant of land by King John to the city that contained some twenty villages.

Riding at anchor to the right of the funnel of the 'Manchester' is HMS 'Southampton', a boys' training ship at Hull from 1867 to 1912.

Richard was persuaded to ride to Flint with only a small personal escort of five esquires, and Northumberland was lying in wait for him.

A former warship, the 'Empress', rides at anchor off Gareloch, where she was stationed for many years as an Industrial Training Ship for homeless and destitute boys.

The West Riding Union Bank on the left (later Barclays) replaced the Royal Hotel. In the middle on their own island site was Fletchers the grocers.

The young child on the tricycle rides past the Unicorn, now the premises of Wadsworth`s, the beer, wine and spirit merchants, who have moved from their office on Bridge Street.

Until the Second World War, the town still largely catered for the hunting, fishing, walking and riding fraternity and looked to the surrounding countryside.

IN 1908, in his Round About Wiltshire, A G Bradley wrote an idyllic description of the five mile 'run' between Beckhampton and Calne: 'One is on the wide open down, traversing the north-western

In the same account we read that 'during the fair a serious accident occurred to a youth named Munn, who, whilst crossing the road was ridden over by a person, who was furiously riding a spirited

The priory's last vestige, the gatehouse on the west side of Moulsham Street, was demolished in 1857. The pathway leading through it had solidified into the road known as Friars Place.

Built in the 1950s, Basildon prided itself on creating visionary buildings and spaces within the town centre, using the best ideas of the day.

After the Second World War the business moved to the High Street, and made the most of Epsom's connections with the riding world. They supplied Nightingalls, Dullers, and other trainers.

St Bride's Hotel was built on the site of an old white house where previously a farm had stood.

The pretty cottages of Little Bredy stand in a peaceful setting along the valley of the River Bride, despite having been in the front line of Britain's defence during the dark days of the 1940s.

His bride was Emily Sellwood, whom Tennyson had known since she was a girl of seventeen.

A delightful gravestone survives in the town's churchyard commemorating Ann Cook who died in 1814: 'On a Thursday she was born, On a Thursday made a bride, On a Thursday broke her leg, And on a Thursday

Burton Bradstock lies just inland from the sea, close to the mouth of the River Bride, a charming little Dorset stream.