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of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

This view looks south down the High Street from near High Bridge. The 11th-century tower of St Mary le Wigford church peers out amid the later commercial architecture.

The old stump of this tree known as Merlin's Oak is still kept in the town's civic hall.

The spire was struck by lightning in 1854 and the steeple had to be pulled down, but all was restored and the church extended in 1882.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.

Travellers on the A25 cannot fail to see the scars on the south side of the North Downs that were once the Betchworth quarries.

Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

We are looking in the same direction, only this time the view is taken from lower down the road, and shows the fine villas very much associated with the town.

The lane leads to Alfriston further down the Cuckmere River, a popular tourist village with its Clergy House.

Behind us stretches a shingle bank down to Orford and beyond, where the Alde meets the sea.

It is close to the lane that goes down to the village school, and faces one of the entrances to the railway station from where these men departed forever.

The road then led down to Harlow Mill on the Stort and the bridge into Hertfordshire.

In full armour, knights rode down the lists, trying to unhorse one another with lances. The castle is now a ruin.

Over the years encroachments have closed down this open space, but this may be excused by the quality of the flat-fronted Georgian buildings in the photograph.

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Gardens slope down to the river, and thick canopies of trees at the water's edge keep the wind from the sails of boats.

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.