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The factory burnt down in 1936, and a new one was built on the site.

opposition to the building from the locals: as well as fearing they might end up with a white elephant on their hands, they were understandably concerned that construction would involve the knocking down

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

Hadleigh, in past times a significant wool town, sits alongside a tributary of the Stour.

At Bingley, mills crowd down to the waterside.

The old Laindon High Street had about 120 shops spreading in twos or threes from the Fortune of War down past the station to Langdon Hills.

Further down is the Rush Cutters pub.

Whitehall is the traditional home of the offices of goverment and here are the Treasury, the Home Office, the Privy Council and, of course, the entrance to Downing Street.

This sublime abbey, scene of many coronations down the centuries, is probably the most famous of English religious buildings, and considered the pinnacle of European Gothic architecture.

'Glorious Goodwood', one of the great advertising slogans, usually lives up to its name, and the racing that takes place here, high on the South Downs and a mile north of Goodwood House, is usually blessed

This shows a very deserted unmade road leading into town, more familiar to motorists today, who have to slow down at the top in order to join the Bath Road into Devizes.

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

The only link to this wonderful structure today is Pier Street, which runs from Millbay down to the Hoe.

Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'little Venice', with soft green lawns spreading down to the water's edge.

In the distance is the Manor House Hotel, the grandest in the town: in 1949 full board here cost no less than 42 shillings a day. It had its own private staircase down to the beach.

The cannon has now gone, but Davis' four pedestrian entrance gateways, two surmounted by Egyptian lions, remain: elegant and Soane-like architecture in a pared-down Greek style.

Looking west from Bathampton Down, past the villas of Bathwick across the northern half of the city, we can see how the formality of the ramrod-straight Great Pulteney Street to the left contrasts with

Looking south down Scale Hill, once known as Church Lane. The first building on the right is the tramps boarding house, on the site of the Chequers Inn.

Budleigh's sea front is mostly a Victorian construction, for a century earlier green meadows sloped down to the edge of the seashore.

The rectory burned down in the 1950s. It was a Tudor building inside a later shell: those chimney-stacks betray its true vintage.

West Bay only acquired its name in the 1880s when the railway was brought down to its picturesque harbour.

Further along is the Timeball Tower (centre), built to give Greenwich Mean Time to passing ships by dropping a large ball down a shaft at the top of the tower at exactly 1pm every day.

This lane leads down to the Flatford Mill complex, now owned by the National Trust.

The lorry coming down the hill (left) is a sign of changing times; by the fifties most goods were being moved by road, and the ketches seen in photograph 63963 (p.73) were long gone.