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We are looking towards the west end of the Market Place. The two tailors and outfitters businesses, John Collier and J E Hall, sit side-by-side, next to the Home & Colonial Tea Store.

We are looking towards the west end of the Market Place. The two tailors and outfitters businesses, John Collier and J E Hall, sit side-by-side, next to the Home & Colonial Tea Store.

The Plough Inn was demolished to allow for the extension of the graveyard, leaving the New Inn a few yards further down towards the sea.

Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill. It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

Crays Hill is a thoroughfare settlement in the parish of Ramsden Crays—the name ultimately coming from the 12th-century de Crei family.

The church hall, in Rectory Road, was much more central to Pitsea than the medieval church, perched on its hilltop site.

The south-east tower, or donjon, had walls 23 ft thick and was separated from the wall of the inner ward by its own moat and drawbridge.

Donald Wolfit and his wife Rosalind Iden were appearing at the Theatre Royal in a series of Shakespearean plays.

Horses pulling the narrowboats would have climbed up the bridge on the right and down on the left, thus changing from one side of the canal to the other at this point.

A horse-tram belonging to the Leamington & Warwick Tramway Co trundles by the parish church of All Saints. The church was built in the French-Gothic style between 1843-1869.

A number of troopships set out from here in June 1944 to play a role in the D-Day landings.

Fontmell Magna was long known to early guidebook writers as 'the village with the maypole', for this symbol of fertility and the seasons survived here for generations.

The town centre was constructed on a plateau halfway between Laindon and Vange. The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built.

Note too the bicycle parked on the other side of the road, with the pedal set back on the kerb so it can act as a stand.

Opened in 1836 by the Bristol General Cemetery Co, Arnos Vale became the city's main burial ground until augmented by the opening of Greenbank Cemetery during the 1870s.

Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon. One such rambler was Thomas Hardy, who famously used the ramparts as a setting in his novel 'The Trumpet Major'.

This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.

This is a wonderful old view of bygone years, with the old mill, the bridge and longhorn cattle crossing the river. The name Sturry means 'Stour-y', on or by the Stour.

They also founded the port of Romney.

Setting out on a fishing trip, one of Folkestone's fleet leaves the inner harbour.

There are still ample shops, cafés and restaurants here, and most of the buildings still exist. Car-parking facilities have been provided. The memorial column to Henry Bell can be seen near the pier.

The steamers now trading between the resorts all belong to the one company, Caledonian MacBrayne, who operate all services on the west coast of Scotland and the Western Isles.

The bridge is more than over 2,760 yards long, including the approach viaducts, giving a clear headway at high water of 150 ft. The steel towers stand 360 ft high and are supported on granite piers.

Now it has elegant pews and an altar with fine medieval painted panels (from St Michael-at-Pleas Church), and is the regimental chapel of the Royal Norfolk Regiment containing their flags, honour and memorials