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This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.

This photograph gives us the opportunity to look down the street and into Hargreaves Street, where the GPO stands (54191, page 46).

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

This building was erected in 1911 when the original inn burnt down. There has been an inn on this site since the 12th century; it was originally a cider house, part of an orchard.

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.

The pier, the second longest in the country after Southend's, reached out from the mile and a half long esplanade and was built in 1832 to shorten the time taken to travel to the continent.

As we have already seen, Breconshire is renowned for its many waterfalls and caves in the far south west.

The bridge was the first structure of its kind in the world, and is pictured here when it was 64 years old. The bridge is best viewed from Belgian Promenade which overlooks the water.

Now we look westwards down the south side of West Street, from Knight and Son, tailors (far left). The next building housed stationer and printer W Frost who published the 'Bridport News'.

It says a lot for this land- scape that artists of all kinds have responded to it and interpreted it in diverse ways.

Immediately south-east of Lingfield lies the race course, founded in 1890, and beyond that is the next station on the railway line, Dormans.

The local Board of Health had put their foot down over the amount of debris that the market was depositing in the High Street every Friday. It was February 1880 when the new site opened.

New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.

The Buttertubs Pass leads dramatically down to this village, which is 9 miles west of Muker. It was hit by a natural disaster in 1898, the result of a cloud burst.

Among the market traders who used to draw the crowds were Mrs Gee, who literally sold crockery at knock down prices by shouting out the price and banging on an old tea chest.

The lifeboat was slung on a wheeled cradle which would be hauled out of the station, down the ramp immediately in front of it, and into the sea; the boat floated off once there was sufficient water under

The lifeboat was slung on a wheeled cradle which would be hauled out of the station, down the ramp immediately in front of it, and into the sea; the boat floated off once there was sufficient water under

Between the two world wars Jack Perrin, who lived in the nearby Hagg Cottages, used to sit by the entrance and sell half candles to people who wanted to go down the mine.

This view from Skerton Bridge looks back down the River Lune to Lancaster.

Moving south to the Cuckmere River valley, our tour reaches Upper Dicker, about two and a half miles west of Hailsham.

This was the second palace on the site: the first, built originally for the 1862 International Exhibition, burnt down just two years after being opened in 1873 as north London's rival to the south's Crystal

Davenham gets its name from the River Dane (a 'trickling stream'), although it sits just about halfway between it and the River Weaver.