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And now to the greatest mystery: who were the people who raised the tumuli or burial mounds on Petersfield Heath during the Bronze Age some 1,000 years after the Stone Age?

Another recreation ground available to Rugbeians was the Whitehall Recreation Ground on Hillmorton Road, which housed a 28-ton, armoured First World War tank presented to the town in 1919,

At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.

Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford.

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond. The Castle gateway is out of shot on the left.

The broad thoroughfare reflects not only the market town but also its link with the sea. Below the cobbles still runs the Belfast River, which once had quays allowing ships to come off the Lagan.

Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

The ancient bridge in the foreground - the site dates from before 1180 - was in 1964 found to be unsafe and replaced.

A scene of a typical village pub: quiet, unassuming and somewhat down-at-heel, but an essential part of the fabric of English rural life.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

The matter was first raised at the AGM of the Borough of Twickenham Local History Society in 1986, and the first proposal was that the museum should occupy part of the stables behind Orleans House

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

Father Crook died in 1800 and his place was taken by Father Talbot, who remained in Ormskirk until 1845.

With nine mill sites in the town, many enterprises used water to power the machinery necessary for their businesses — corn, paper, and cloth-fulling mills, saw mills, and tanneries.

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

This pool was once the venue for what must have been a spectacular and potentially hazardous swimming race, which was for local police officers.

The Three Horse Shoes public house on the left and the Albert Hotel on the right have been pulled down.

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside

The River Pang rises on the Berkshire Downs, beginning as an intermittent chalk 'winterbourne' before maturing to a clear trout stream.

By the 1950s, thoughts were turning toward redeveloping the town centre.

This view was taken looking south to the Bear Hotel at the top end of the car park. The new Bear Hotel was built some time after 1750 by John Provis, a painter, and leased out.

This view, from the famous High and Over viewpoint on the South Downs, shows the big meanders and flat valley floor of the only undeveloped river-mouth in the south-east.