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The timber building with steps leading down from the cliff (right) is the Pakefield lifeboat shed, which was washed away by 1905.

Mills were frequently rebuilt, and this mill replaces one that was burnt down in the 17th century.

Prior to the Second World War the house was pulled down and replaced with modern houses. An electric clock was installed in 1945.

This street, which is on the periphery of the main shopping area of Stourbridge, has now become rather run down - a pity, since there are one or two fine houses here dating from the 1700s,

Further down on the left, and beyond the two cars, a grocer sells Lyon's tea and Wills Star cigarettes.

The young man's body was brought back to St Donat's, where it lay in state in the great gallery, looked down upon by the portraits of his equally dead ancestors.

Bridge Street was known as Beaufront Street until the Middle Ages, and the land still sloped down to the sea until these sea walls were built after the Civil War.

Further down, St Joseph's Catholic Church arrived in 1935: not a masterpice, it has to be admitted, and in a pallid Gothic style.

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

This view down Silver Street, widened here at the junction with Gold Street in the 1930s, looks towards Dalkieth Place.

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth. Visiting ships now miss this magnificent suspension bridge.

High and Over, or Hindover, is a vantage point on the South Downs, overlooking the Cuckmere river valley.

The remainder step down the street in chronological order: later 19th-century shops, and the Bull's Head Pub built around the turn of the century.

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Apart from Westminster Hall, the old parliament buildings were burned down in 1834 and the present buildings, in Gothic style, replaced them.

It is said that a tunnel ran from the church down the hill to the old monastery opposite.

At almost three-quarters of a mile in length, it was the second-longest pier in England after Southend's, but was damaged by a severe storm in 1978 and pulled down the following year.

Her close neighbour at nearby Rydal Mount was William Wordsworth, who had his own pew in the church; so did the family of Dr Arnold of Rugby School fame.

Further down, a large barn and an old house beyond. A local character, Miss Barrow, lived in Ancaster House where she was well known for her vegetable garden.

Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

Sand yachts were large four-wheeled vehicles mounting a yacht rig and capable of tearing up and down the beach at high speed.

The earliest tourists to the Lake District were overwhelmed by the 'horrid' and 'frightful' nature of the mountains and crags, which frowned down on them as they negotiated the passes.