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At 195 grt and powered by a two-cylinder simple engine, she was used on local services on the Medway, though from 1901 she was based at Ramsgate during the summer season for excursion traffic.

The inner bailey was defended by fourteen towers, and both gates had barbicans.

The local church here contains the graves of two Englishmen - both remembered for entirely different reasons.

The sundial was removed from its original mounting on the gable of the south transept in 1891 and re-erected near the west tower three years later.

Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.

This junction was later moved further on, and the 'cut' to the left became the entrance to the 'pound'.

On the top of the hill is the outer navigation station for Heathrow Airport, used by the Trans-Atlantic flights.

Begun in the mid 1830s, Walton Hall was to be both the family home and the country estate of Gilbert Greenall, a wealthy local brewer and prominent businessman.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

Six hundred years later, another invading army made Old Sarum its defensive home: the inner fortifications now contained a Norman castle and a cathedral.

Here we see another view of the main street. The jaunting car tells of the recent changes, and the lamps tell of a gasworks only waiting to be expanded.

As well as the Star Dining Rooms and the Pier Head Dining Room on its left, we have another on the very right of our view.

In 1925 it became the Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp, with 400 campers in this building and another 100 men in permanent tents in the grounds. It later became Middleton Towers Holiday Camp.

These views show the town from the 1890s to the 1960s; they record both the many changes that have taken place and also, paradoxically, how much of the old town survives.

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

Another quiet day in the High Street; perhaps the photograph was taken on a Wednesday, which was early closing day.

This is a fine view of Holy Cross Church with the Abbey Buildings on the left. The Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Institute is on the right.

The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.

But it does bear the same date - 1577 - so perhaps both were part of the same building.

This view shows Caerphilly following the restoration both of its fabric and its water defences by the Marquis of Bute.

Augustus John was another native of the town.

Here we see another view of the street, which was cut in early Victorian times to become a channel of trade and industry. The vista extends to Cromac.

He demonstrated the boat before Queen Victoria in 1852 on the Solent at Netley.