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Over one hundred years' later, Guildown still closes this view, with the famous clock of 1683 jutting out from the Elizabethan Guildhall. The clock was made by London clockmaker John Aylward.

Camberley grew up at the gates of the Military Staff College which opened in 1862.

The long esplanade is one of Penzance's great assets; here we look towards the harbour area, with the lofty church tower as a prominent landmark.

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt. The Congregational Chapel in the background was built in 1831.

The elevation of the house has been altered to include a balcony and an extension on the left side.

Though the present building is mostly 17th-century, a mill has existed on this site since Domesday.

The landlord of the Ship Inn situated in the old hamlet was John Andrews, who was notorious for his smuggling.

The little beach huts and tearooms look cosy enough sheltering under the cliff, but as the name implies it would be a different matter on the cliff top.

Beside Beach Villa with the Metropole just behind, the new cliff lift was in process of being constructed; it was eventually to make access to and from the beach much simpler.

The white building in the centre of the photograph is the Royal Beacon Hotel, and the hotel on the left, level with the flower beds, is the Channel View.

This is one of the more unusual piers: its 642ft-long neck does not go straight out to sea, but veers rightward. It was built in 1895-97, and was used widely by steamers.

The Chain Pier lasted from 1823 to 1896, falling victim to storms, neglect and a loss of business to the West Pier.

Winforton has been described as a typical 'farm village' and this building would once have been the home of a very well-to-do farmer.

It was built in 1800, after the Gregs raised the height of the weir at Styal and destroyed the old ford that took the road over to Pownall Hall.

Kingsteignton was for a long time the site of a mill which seemed jinxed. In 1795 it was attacked by a mob during bread riots, and in 1870 it had to be rebuilt after a fire.

To the south of the town is remote heath and woodland.

The old parish included the townships of Beech, Kibblestone, Hilderstone and Normacott, and in 1811 the population was around 6,000 people.

Other than Burton, brewing in Staffordshire received a shot in the arm with the opening in 1992 of the Lichfield Brewery, which produces such delights as Resurrection Ale and Xpired.

The River Lune has never suffered the amount of industrial pollution that its southern Lancashire sisters the Mersey and the Ribble have had.

The 320ft-high Big Ben clock tower attached to the new Palace of Westminster was just 38 years old at this time.

The ivy-covered house on the left was Rawdon House, occupied by Dr George Mellersch Jones, MA, MRCS,LRCP Lond, surgeon, medical officer and public vaccinator for No 2 district of the Alton Union.

Mr Collier`s shop (left), with its cheerful assortment of Lyons Maid, Woodbines and footballs, is still fondly remembered.

The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of the lake was originally a hand-rowed opera- tion. But in 1870, twenty-six years before this photograph was taken, it became steam-operated.

The umbrellas on the coach-and-four drawn up outside the ornate frontage of the Queen's Hotel appear to have been raised to protect the holders from the sun, rather than the rain.