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Linwood lies over to the western edge of the New Forest, and is surrounded by woodland, heath and plain - as this picture suggests.

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.

The Great India and China Tea Company, an 1880s building (on the left) is now, aptly, the Mocha Berry Cafe‚ while the haberdashers on the right is now The Grafton Cafe; both establishments reflect the

He survived only another two years.

Another change is The New Inn, since renamed The Little Owl after a Gold Cup winning racehorse.

Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

The black and white building at the dar side of the street is the Victoria Jubilee Hall, erected in 1887; today it also has a clock to celebrate another jubilee, that of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.

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

The roofed building has been replaced by the Ayscoughfee Café, and the gardens include an impressive war memorial to Spalding's dead of both wars.

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

The Bible tells us that we should build our houses on rock and not sand – and all the oldest cottages in Burton sit perched on outcrops of sandstone.

Llanrhystud is overlooked by an Iron Age fort, just out of view on the left, which was later occupied by Welsh and Norman earth and timber castles.

There are Rows on both sides of Watergate Street.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

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

The barons were destroyed, and both Simon de Montfort and his son were among the dead. Shortly afterwards Henley was sacked and burnt.

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

The local garage is in on the Green Shield stamp craze; you were given so many stamps depending on the value of your purchase, which you then stuck in a booklet, each booklet holding a given number of

Another old inn, the Peacock, was already scheduled for demolition when it caught fire in February 1974.

Another view along the Welland towards Town Bridge, over which the old Great North Road crossed into Lincolnshire.

The inn occupied both of these buildings. The one to the left is 16th-century, with a brick façade of 1759. The taller building was erected in 1826.

Parker was a young seaman, who having arrived at Southampton, made his way across country with another member of the crew.

Returning to the Square, we are once again looking at Market Street.