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The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Bude's canal, built in 1823, was something of an oddity. For its first two miles, it was a barge canal – as seen here. Then, freight was trans-shipped into small 5-ton tubs with wheels.

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s. The Norman-style windows to the right date from 1863, when this wing became the Probate Registry Office.

This cobbled street is one of the best known in this compact town, which preserves its medieval street plan almost intact.

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

This private estate was developed in 1833 by the Wakefield solicitor and Clerk of Barnsley Canal Company Thomas Foljambe (1775-1851), part of a larger scheme to build a number of grand

The village of Quernmore is three miles south-east of Lancaster. Quernmore Park Hall lies just over a mile north of the village.

Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.

Ockley is a very fine village along the course of the Roman road from London to Chichester, which has been known from Anglo-Saxon times as Stane Street.

Within sight of the war memorial stands the Sergison Arms, the oldest pub in Haywards Heath: it dates from the 16th century, when it was the home of John Vynall (who died in 1599).

The chequered brick and weather boarded cottage (right) is Barclays Bank; it opened in 1910 in what was then the front room of a cottage. The bank was to stay here until 1999.

The interior of the parish church is very different today.

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to

This hilltop village overlooks the head of Gillan Creek at the northern edges of the Lizard, close by the Helford River.

Three miles from Wellingborough, between the Nene and the Ise, lies the village of Finedon.

None of its brick buildings is outstanding, yet the total effect is one of pleasing harmony. Many of the shops have retained their Victorian detailing.

A final view of Christchurch, again looking east along the nave. The massive nature of the architecture is clearly seen.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

It is believed that Bainbridge was a settlement for woodsmen working in the great forest of Wensleydale.

The medieval system of strip-lynchet farming is still visible on the hillsides around this small hamlet in this turn of the century photograph.

One of a number of attractive coves on the length of coastline between Torquay and Babbacombe, Anstey's Cove has been a favourite retreat for holidaymakers since Victorian times, when the proprietor would

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

The church is a fine pre-Reformation church, now part of the Church of Ireland. St Mary's was heavily restored in the nineteenth century.