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Beyond the ornamental lych gate framed by these cottages is the church of St Mary and St Cuthberga, whose brown and grey stone west tower is Perpendicular.

Since the period of the picture, there has been a lot of modern housing development here.

Here the expanding village can be seen from the Llangattock side of the Usk. To the left, a diagonal road of houses rises en route to Llanbedr.

The shop of J Singleton, where you could shop and also acquire a haircut, is no longer a general-purpose shop.

Here we see an excellent view of the Row. Bridge Street, Eastgate Street and Watergate Street have Rows on either side.

Originally an inn, the house on the left of the picture is where Jane Austen lived during the last years of her life.

This was the site of the Old Town Hall. Thomas Harris paid for the enclosure and planting of the Central Gardens in 1896.

Here we see some of the gardens to the west of the main town, much enjoyed by residents and visitors. The land slopes more gently than in the Shrubbery area.

A fine study of the Ladies' Bathing Place, which seems a popular venue for both the women and menfolk of Portrush. A yacht can be seen out towards the Skerries.

Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times, owing much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.

This photograph captures the Edwardian gaiety of the Thames at Boulters Lock, a particularly fashionable spot; here dozens of smart cruisers, punts and small craft parade before an admiring audience.

Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left. In front of them stands the fine war memorial.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

The Cooper's Arms, just after the turn of the 20th century; McMullens advertise their 'fine ales and invigorating stout'. The road surface shows signs of cobbling from an earlier age.

The Honeypot Lane Murders Just around the corner from this innovative, crescent-shaped block of 50 town houses is Honeypot Lane.

Nobbies and nickies had the same basic hull shape, but were rigged differently, and the nickey was probably the better sailor of the two.

This beautiful village, once famous for its skilled bowmen, stands on the edge of Bowland Forest. The stump of the old 13th-century market cross dominates this scene.

Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London to Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

Further development of the town meant further conversion of houses into shops. Note that Smith Bradbeers has moved to this corner, from Market Street (see page 25).

Moving south we cross the River Ivel by the Girtford Bridge to reach the town of Sandy on the Great North Road, the A1.

Its church houses a superb collection of monuments to the 17th- and 18th-century Dormer family.

It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town. Its broad High Street has a pleasing mixture of half-timbered buildings and elegant Regency houses.

Although Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall dominates the scene, it is the small round building almost in the middle of our picture that intrigues me.

The building seen here is properly called the Royal Free Museum & Library; it opened on 9 January 1850, and was the first unconditionally free municipal public library in the United Kingdom.