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the road into a dual carriageway, and you see Mutley as it is today, except that the Hyde Park Hotel (from where this view was taken) is now on an island and Mutley Methodist (left) has been pulled down

This view looks down the spacious nave and shows the wide nave aisles. The high arches of the nave arcades echo the proportions of Canterbury cathedral.

This 16th-century arch, leading from the original village down to the harbour, was once fitted with a portcullis and gates as a protection for the settlement against pirates and sea-raiders.

This view looks down the hill towards The Priory and Lister's factory. The 18th-century shopfronts of Long Street have been largely retained.

Local lore says that they are a good luck charm, and that having a piece in your house will prevent it burning down.

Laid down at Sheerness in 1895, engined by Clydebank, and completed in 1897, 'Pelorus' was the lead ship for a class on the Cape Station before transferring to the East Indies.

Looking down across the recreational park leads the eyeline to the scarred skyline with menacing stratus clouds building up.

Portland's position has proved important for the defence of southern England down the centuries.

The jetty leads down from Church Square, which contains some fine 18th-century buildings.

Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years. The stone was used extensively for the arcades of many Devon churches.

The Crown Hotel in the High Street tried very hard; but it did the proprietors no good, because the hotel closed down soon afterwards.

It was completed in 1840 after one notable delay - the workers downed tools to join a Chartist march as it passed by on its way to the Westgate Hotel.

It captures the designs of the tents and caravans of the period, all set down at apparent random, a far cry from what is normally seen on campsites today.

One of the many streams that cascade off the moor - this is the beginning of Mill Ghyll, which flows down Wells Road and then underneath Brook Street.

Bridge Street slopes down to the river Mole and the 14-arch bridge of 1782.

An early motor car is driven proudly down the middle of the road in Liskeard's centre.

This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest.

There is quite a large crowd gathered down toward the old windmill. Unfortunately, we have no idea what is going on, but it is reasonable to assume that it is a concert.

Trains from Scarborough crossed the viaduct, stopped at West Cliff and then reversed steeply down beneath the viaduct into Whitby.

These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which the men named on them were drawn.

In 1892 the town's sewage works was opened.

Boscombe was built across a wooded chine, a wide ravine, that leads down to the sea; chines are common on this coast.

The modern houses (left) are down towards Merriott Bridge. Dugberry Hill is on the skyline (right of church tower).

East Grinstead, a Wealden market town founded during the early 13th-century woodland clearances, was recorded as a borough by 1235.