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At this date, the town's tramway system was still horse-drawn, and would remain so for another five years. The town'' cabs represented good value for money.

The opulent car has just arrived through an impressive gateway out of view on the left, and has entered a courtyard reminiscent of Tudor times with domestic rather than military buildings.

The view is westwards from Lower Eype to the outline of Thorncombe Beacon (centre) above Lyme Bay.

Built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the keep performed both residential and military roles. Its walls were the same thickness all the way up, which enhanced its defensive capabilities.

There has been a fortification of one sort or another at Inverness since the time of King Brude in the 6th century.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

This massive increase came from those seeking work in the town's coal mines, both from other parts of Wales, industrial and rural, and from the west of England, particularly Somerset and the Forest of

The popular Century Cinema was built in 1937 on the corner of Kingsway Road and Station Way.

Detail, both internally and externally, is paramount, from the clustered brick chimney stacks to the beautifully-carved brackets supporting the jettying.

Leaving the sprawl of Worthing behind, we move west along the coast and inland to Angmering, a village much expanded to the north and east but retaining its historic core relatively intact.

In 1801, while repairs to the spire were in progress, a barber shaved customers on top of it and a china painter decorated a cup.

John Stokes, a 15th-century clothier, built the north aisle; the chancel was rebuilt in 1876. The Perpendicular font, dug up in 1939, is octagonal, with a pattern of quatrefoils in circles.

Walton-on-Thames is another suburbanised town south-west of London along the River Thames.

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter`s Church (centre).

This well-known holiday resort, which has an excellent sandy beach, stands on the west coast of Wales at the mouth of the Mawddach estuary. Both Darwin and Ruskin enjoyed stays here.

The floor of the Royal Exchange was the scene of frantic activity on Tuesdays and Fridays, when at the hour of High Exchange anything up to 6000 men would gather here and shout at one another.

It was never a financial success because of its rural course, and the success of the Kennet & Avon Canal put paid to the owners' hopes.

We conclude the tour with another reference to manned flight, in this case airships.

Another infamous resident was Lady Luxborough, whose husband hid her away there in 1736 because she had been scandalising London.

It is regrettable that the large brewery chains have generally done away with both the fittings and the furniture in order to create the new family pub of the 21st century.

It opened in 1895 as St Cuthbert's College, and was the sixth of the public schools founded by Nathaniel Woodard (Lancing College in Sussex was another).

Rope making was a flourishing industry both for the marine and agricultural markets.

Milnes rivalled the Denisons of Leeds as the county's biggest cloth exporter, and in 1778 he married the heiress of another prosperous Leeds textile merchant, Hans Buck.

The remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was