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The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

Cattle graze on Emery Down's green in the early years of the last century, a more familiar sight then than now.

Dorchester Road 1906 Maiden Newton makes a good centre for exploring the Dorset downs. Many visitors walk up to the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon.

We are looking down Manchester Road, the A56; the road looks quiet and almost asleep. The Lord Nelson Hotel is on the right.

Just down the river is the internationally famous seal sanctuary, founded in the 1950s by midlander Ken Jones to take care of sick, injured or orphaned seals.

This fine view shows the River Taw meandering down to the Long Bridge (just left of centre), and behind the bridge the dark wooded mound of the castle, built in the 10th century.

Branscombe runs down a beautiful little valley ('Brannoc's combe') to a break in the cliffs with a tiny beach.

Grotesque gargoyles (like those at Winchcombe church) look down from the church into the Market Square. Some of the town's fine Georgian buildings can be seen here.

The children seem less happy, one lying down and the other trying to keep the wind out. Note the beach huts on the right-hand side.

This is the view down Smithy Lane, Bradwell, looking towards the green escarpment of Bradwell Edge in the background. Note the non-conformist chapel on the extreme right.

Cat Gill is the stream which plunges under the bridge on its way down to meet Derwent Water.

Bruton's High Street prospered from medieval times with the woollen industry, which grew along the Brue - gardens behind the houses ran down to the river.

Anna Gurney, the translator of the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', lived here for many years: she was paralysed and had to be carried down to the nearby beach that she loved.

Up until just over a hundred years ago, a watercourse, or lode, ran down the centre of this street.

Feeding the animals in the Forest is now strictly forbidden, as a number of animals have been run down by cars after having been lured to the roadside.

The Bridge Hotel, which here stands squarely in the background at the end of the footpath, burnt down in 1987 and has not been replaced.

This view looks down Bexhill's original High Street. In the distance is Barrack Hall, occupied by a garrison of troops during the Napoleonic Wars.

Further down the main road through the village we see the stream, which is still here, and in the distance St Agatha's chapel of 1849. The house on the left is now demolished.

The scene, little changed over the last hundred years, has been a location for 'Whistle Down the Wind' and a BBC drama.

It is difficult to equate this tumble-down cobbled street with today's unattractive Westgate.

This view down the High Street towards St. Ives shows little change.

The garage (left) beyond Queens Road, now owned by Vindis, has expanded, and traffic calming measures have attempted to slow down the local traffic.

The old Pier, shortly before it was taken down, has a forlorn air about it.

At the lower end of the market square, leading down to the Swale Falls, is Millgate - little changed today.