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The four-storey Sundial Cottage (left), and Library Cottage next door are shown before the building of the Bay Private Hotel.

The statue of Thomas Gainsborough, the artist, was erected in front of the tower in 1913. On the left is the Bank of 1903, with columns between the windows and circular fanlights.

The rest of the village is to the south. The driver of the Triumph Herald 1200 patiently waits, with his window wound down, for his wife to post a letter and buy a newspaper.

The eastern end of Hastings beach beside the RNLI lifeboat house is known as the 'Stade'- Saxon for 'landing place'; here the fleet of about 40 fishing boats are still winched up onto the shingle.

Above a great double avenue of beech trees, which line the road from Wimborne, lies the huge hillfort of Badbury.

From Lansdown Road turn left into Camden Crescent, an ambitious project begun in 1788 on the slopes of Beacon Hill, which gave splendid views eastwards.

Horsley is one of the ancient parishes from which Nailsworth was formed in the 1890s, the others being Avening and Minchinhampton.

Here again we see a road that is now overhung with mature trees and was formerly clear of undergrowth.

Designed by Sir Aston Wenn and surmounted by a hart sculpted by Alfred Drury, it is built of Portland stone.

Since the 1930s thousands of houses have been built in Portchester. The A27 is at one end of Castle Street. From the White Hart pub to the castle there are a variety of Georgian red brick properties.

We are now on the north or Essex bank of the Thames Estuary. This rather quaint view shows the then 'up to the minute' toll booths of the newly-opened Dartford Tunnel.

Apart from the wintry ice of a semi-frozen Thames, this view from Savoy Pier shows the old Waterloo Bridge, which was designed by Sir John Rennie and completed in 1817.

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.

Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.

The Deanery is now known as Church House, and since 1940 has been the offices of the diocese of Gloucester.

The 1930s saw a number of towns and cities abandon tram routes in favour of trolleybuses; they were partially influenced by the findings of a Royal Commission on Transport.

It replaced an earlier brick house of about 1740. The trees are said to have been laid out to show the disposition of troops at the Duke of Marlborough's victory at Malplaquet in 1709.

Egerton stands at the edge of the Weald on a high greensand ridge. The church is 15th-century and built of Kentish ragstone, and its gargoyled tower is a landmark for miles around.

Headcorn stands on the River Beult and is a large village with a single broad, straggling street. On the right outside the George and Dragon is a motorcycle with an unusual basketwork sidecar.

The tower was capped by a timber spire until 1802, when it was removed at the behest of Lady Kensington who feared that it would fall on her nearby house.

Launceston Castle is of the classic motte and bailey design: a high central tower stands on a mound surrounded by the bailey defences.

Launceston Castle is of the classic motte and bailey design: a high central tower stands on a mound surrounded by the bailey defences.

Two ancient churches occupy sites in the Old Town: St Mary's in nearby Lowgate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, shown here with its attendant market stalls.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871–72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.