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The erection of the war memorial proved to be both protracted and controversial.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches built with the local limestone. It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border.

He survived only another two years.

In the distance and slightly to the left of the clock tower is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell, who built the first steam-powered vessel to sail on the Clyde.

This was another desirable residential road, with prosperous Victorian villas at its eastern end.

The one-time manor is sited very close to the M1 motorway, and the whole area has undergone considerable development because of the demand for housing within reach of London.

The pub sign is for the Ship, always, it seems, a locals' watering hole as opposed to the other inns and cafes that have catered for travellers on the London to Portsmouth road.

This shows both sides of the river. The punt crossed the Thames to a slipway to the right of Dunton's boathouse, and the fare was 1d.

This is a view from the south-east, and shows the Ladies' Gate on the right and the bowed fernery on the left. The brickwork of the original windmill can be seen on the Round Tower.

Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

North of Wainfleet, on the Skegness to Lincoln road, Burgh le Marsh is a market town whose charter was granted in 1401. At its east end is another of Lincolnshire's preserved windmills.

Another view of the imposing white Congregational church which serves both Ansdell and Fairhaven. A vintage tram makes its way down Clifton Drive to Lytham St Anne's.

In 1689 most of the town was again burned to the ground when another fire swept through it. As a result, very few houses seen in the town today were built before the 17th century.

Here we see the Grammar School from another angle, looking from East Road back into the city.

To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway

To the east there is an outlying stone, over which the sun rises at the spring and autumn equinoxes.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

Farningham is just a short distance from Eynsford, set at another pretty crossing of the Darent between ridges of chalk hills.

A small town at the gateway to Wales, close to the English border and Offa's Dyke, Chirk is noted both for its castle, in continuous occupation from the 13th century, and its position at the entrance to the

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.

Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.

The town's fine Market House dates from 1698; it rests on an arcade of pillars that are unusual in that they are made of stone on the outside, and timber on the inside.