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A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

Felton stands on the north bank of the Coquet, and it was here that the Great North Road once crossed the river by way of the old bridge featured in the picture.

It is of 14th-century origin, and has some 16th-century and Victorian restoration work.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

St Peter's is the parish church of Barnstaple. This present building was erected in the 13th century on the site of a previous church.

In the 1660s Kinver was the scene of an unsuccessful attempt by Andrew Yarranton to make the Warwickshire Stour navigable from Stourbridge to Stourport-on-Severn.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

By the time this photograph was taken, the building to the left of the picture had been painted and deprived of its bay window.

The Vernons acquired the Haddon Hall estate in around 1170 and, along with the dukes of Devonshire, were one of the principal families hereabouts.

A posed photograph of one of the local weather-beaten characters in his fisherman's oilskins.

The Castle Hotel is to the right of this picture. Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants).

NOW, as we come into the third millennium, it is possible to see that all three communities have become essentially suburban areas, in that few people depend for their living on locally owned farms

Four hundred of these workers combed wool in their homes at Forton, Scorton and Nether Wyresdale.

Here we see the offices and entrance gates of Horrockses, Crewdson & Co on Stanley Street.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

In 1913 the Council received an offer of land skirting Woodcote Hall from Lord Rosebery as 'proof of my deep and abiding affection for Epsom'.

The early period of its history has left a great deal of physical evidence in the street pattern as well as some buildings, while documentary references further flesh out the picture.

Boots the Chemists' library (behind us, at the corner of Market Street) was upstairs, approached by a wooden staircase.

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

The old coaching inn known as the Rainbow was one of the many which had run back from Kendal's main streets since the Middle Ages.