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The road running beside Newlands Bottom is to the left of the valley at this date, unlike the present road, and is now a bridleway.

When cars were rarer here, the village children used to sit on the green and hold sweepstakes, guessing on the number-plate of the next vehicle to pass through.

Two motor coasters lie in the harbour, including the 311-ton Antiquity in the foreground, one of a familiar fleet of vessels owned by F T Everard & Sons.

Continuing along the road containing the spa building, this parade of shops is to be found on the right-hand side.

The larger sailing vessels of late Victorian days have gone, but fishing boats still leave the harbour to bring home their catch, when the swell of the channel allows them to pass through the narrow

Pike 'o' Stickle (2,323 ft) is the thimble-shaped peak prominent on the skyline in this view taken from near the head of Great Langdale.

The Normans followed, but the base of their tower is all that remains.

By the 1650s Lionel Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

The photographer has captured a sleepy Thames-side village just on the point of modernising to meet new demands from the middle classes, who were building along the river and around the villages.

As we look back towards Cookham from near the viewpoint of photograph No 77588 towards the bridge onto Odney, since rebuilt, the Thames is beyond the trees with its two channels.

These elevators were installed at a number of busy locks to cope with the vast numbers of small leisure boats spawned by the boating craze these views capture.

On the Buckinghamshire bank (since 1974 in Berkshire) Henry VI's great foundation, Eton College, has rendered this another 'company town'.

An excellent aerial view of the Cathedral.

Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.

The churchyard at Busbridge is full of memorials, including one to Gertrude Jekyll, the great gardener, who lived nearby at Munstead.

Victoria Road, leading to Heath Park on the south side of the railway, provides the photographer with a catwalk for an Edwardian fashion parade.

Where Heath Park Road (on the right) meets Brentwood Road and Slewins Lane (in the centre), meets Manor Avenue and Balgores Lane (on the left), is the Drill public house.

Situated on an open site between Rainham Road North and Rush Green Road, the Dagenham Civic Centre is a superb example of late-1930s civic architecture.

Fry's Gardens, otherwise Bridge End Gardens, were initiated by Francis Gibson, a member of a well-known Quaker family.

The New Inn on the left of this picture became the Prancing Horse pub before the business eventually closed.

In its heyday the parkland also contained a boating lake with boat house and summer houses and tea houses, all strategically placed for guests and members of the family to pause and take rest and

The increase of traffic along this road means that the junction is now almost impossible to recognise.

Many people visit this beautiful house each year, not only because it is a stunning building, but because it has also become the venue for an annual summer season of open-air theatre and concerts.