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Llanrhystud is overlooked by an Iron Age fort, just out of view on the left, which was later occupied by Welsh and Norman earth and timber castles.

There are Rows on both sides of Watergate Street.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

To the east there is an outlying stone, over which the sun rises at the spring and autumn equinoxes.

The barons were destroyed, and both Simon de Montfort and his son were among the dead. Shortly afterwards Henley was sacked and burnt.

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

The local garage is in on the Green Shield stamp craze; you were given so many stamps depending on the value of your purchase, which you then stuck in a booklet, each booklet holding a given number of

Another old inn, the Peacock, was already scheduled for demolition when it caught fire in February 1974.

Another view along the Welland towards Town Bridge, over which the old Great North Road crossed into Lincolnshire.

The inn occupied both of these buildings. The one to the left is 16th-century, with a brick façade of 1759. The taller building was erected in 1826.

Parker was a young seaman, who having arrived at Southampton, made his way across country with another member of the crew.

Returning to the Square, we are once again looking at Market Street.

It was built in 1843; for a further ninety years after this photograph was taken, it offered both a warning and guidance for ships passing north along the white cliffs, and for those heading

The first car on the left seems to be parked on the bend; the driver might have got away with this in 1960, but today this would be highly irresponsible.

Another tablet commemorates Edward Mellish, 1707, and shows a large family, the man kneeling facing west and the woman east.

Also known as St Sampson's, Golant on the west bank of the Fowey was cut off from the main estuary, save for a bridge, by the embankment of the Lostwithiel to Fowey railway in 1869.

Here we have another view of the High Street before pedestrianisation.

Frogmore Street begins near the bank on the right, site of the medieval north gate. The pedestrians walking towards the camera are heading for the High Street and, no doubt, the market.

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railway, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Lea Scott, an optician`s, is on the left and Haworth`s next door still has both men`s and ladies` wear departments at this time.

On the right is the Swan, the only hotel in the city in the 1920s to be RAC and AA listed.The city's other leading hotel, the George, was once the main coaching inn and is also the setting for George Farquhar's

This view looks southwards across the Common from Stert, named for a neck of land, which juts into the English Channel and is the southernmost point of both Portland and Dorset.

This was another popular area where children could paddle and swim. By 1972 a swimming pool had opened at Edisford.