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A small village, built to house Parham Estate employees, Cootham is situated near to the foot of the downs.

The Constitutional Club (far left) burned down in February 1910. The blaze also damaged Archer's ironmongers' shop next door (with a kettle for its trade-sign).

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

The single bell is housed in an 18th-century bellcote with an ornate Gothic spire - this has since been removed down to the tops of the windows.

Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick. The house below that was home to District Nurse Georgina Montgomery, who was born in India, and then to Nurse Bendall.

The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

The palace was accidentally burnt down by General Hawley's troops in 1746.

This view was taken from below the New Inn, looking down into lower Eype from Mount Lane. The 1860-dated plaque is on Eype School (far left).

Further down we come to the crossroads with Michaelgate and Christ's Hospital Terrace.

The machines, which were stored in a walled enclosure, were taken out and wheeled down to the water's edge when they were needed. There are no swimmers in the water, only a few rowing boats.

Down the High Street on the left, Robt W Edgar`s Bristol Outfitting Stores was part of the block sacrificed for the road widening.

Rather curiously, the High Street turns sharp right at this road junction, and heads down to the beach. The road in the centre distance is the Coast Road to Redcar.

The High Street runs down from the A40 to Burford Bridge and the River Windrush. The upper end is lined with pollarded lime trees.

The Gondola was built in 1859 to take tourists up and down the lake, but was later neglected and became a rotting hulk before being restored in 1980 by its present owners, the National Trust.

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

Here the Roman Fosse Way climbs out of the Avon valley to cross Banner Down on its way to Cirencester, the Roman town of Corinium.

The road leads down through the village of Lealholm to the bridge over the River Esk in the background.

Here we are looking down the High Street, with Smith's chemist's shop – still at this period with only one large window – on the right.

Another view down Nuxley Road taken a little later in the 1950s.

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

Betjeman and architectural historian Marc Girouard, who wrote that the proposed scheme was 'a classic example of how not to plan, for with steamroller simplicity planners would have knocked down

On the right are Elm Cottages, of which four were later altered to shops and one pulled down to make way for a new post office (1896).