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Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

This view is taken further down West Street, with the churchyard on the left and the boundary walls of the Victorian Baptist Church on the right.

Despite additional building and road widening, this scene is still easily recognisable, although a walk down the centre of the road (as the two men are doing) is not advisable.

Owing its rapid development to the Industrial Revolution, the town's streets and buildings tended to be functional rather than attractive.

This view was taken from underneath the railway bridge looking down towards the Wharfe and the next village, Middleton.

As we walk down Northgate Street from the cross, and turn right by Debenhams, we will enter the relatively new area of Kings Square.

A little further down the street, a boy carries a billboard advertising 'Hilton's Boot Sale'. Note the building in the centre by the attractive street lamp - we will see it again.

Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment

We are in a large village at the foot of the Downs, which has several commons. The Premonstratensian monastery of Our Lady of England is still in use.

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

The town originally grew up around the burial place of the Celtic Saint Tydfil.

There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.

Unfortunately, the Beacon fell down during as storm in the 1930s, and was replaced by a simple memorial plaque.

The bypass on the south side of town was opened in 1926; it was much needed to relieve the narrow streets of both local china clay and through traffic.

The descent from Barkway, the second highest point in Hertfordshire, down to Royston, one of the lowest places in the county, was a nightmare for horse-drawn traffic and cyclists.

We are looking down from the Triangle, and we can see the Freeman, Hardy & Willis shoe shop on the left, AJ Perham's Hair Cutting Rooms on the right, and the South Western Gas Board at the end of the street

The terrace of shops stepping down the High Street, beyond the busy junction with Carshalton Road and William Pile Ltd (the stuccoed corner building), was erected in 1880.

Most shops still have awnings, ready to pull down if the sun gets strong. Leons Café, in the distance on the right, offers luncheons and teas.

The occasional soldier can still be seen marching down the street.

Weeke Primary School is down this road - today it has about 280 pupils.

Now all of that has changed, and so has Bridge Street, for it has virtually all been knocked down for redevelopment. On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider.