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Particularly distinctive is the row of 'cushion huts' used by the various boat owners, so called because their primary purpose was for storage of the cushions from the boats when not in use.

The drinking fountain in the middle of Tudor Square was erected by the Mayor, Dr Frederick Dyster, in 1867 to commemorate Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Wedgwood, who fought at Waterloo.

It is now a carpet shop, having by the 1950s become a furniture store.

The gabled building to the right was the Village Hall, replaced in the early 1960s by the present hall.

By the time this picture was taken, a few were working with light trawling gear.

Set on the high ground about 115ft above sea level, inland from the main village, St Nicholas's Church was erected and enlarged from the 13th century by the medieval wool traders of the area.

The buildings by the road have been sold off recently and the land, like so much in Mobberley, is being developed for housing.

His estate was confiscated by the Crown and later given to Margaret Tudor and her husband the Earl of Lennox.Their son married Mary, Queen of Scots.

A well-worn path indicates a bridge frequently used by the locals.

After a period of monitoring and a competition inaugurated by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2000, this bridge was in turn replaced and opened in July 2003.

Hough on the left and looking towards Waterfall and Clockhouse Woods, the path up the Edge, originally an old right of way from the Hough over to Macclesfield, has recently been rebuilt by the

The first steam-paddle driven vessels, the 'Ivanhoe' and 'Warspite', arrived in Weymouth as early as 1827.The ship pictured here is probably one of their successors, built by the famous Lairds

The barges would return to the metropolis with up to 80 tons of mud for the cement works, or with locally-made bricks demanded by the hugely expanding capital.

Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for

There is a glimpse of the Great House - visited by the earl of Chatham with 15-year-old William Pitt the Younger - before Star Supply Stores and the Royal Lion Hotel (centre).

At this time it was the Old Jerusalem pub, but in 1874 it was reclaimed by the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, which founded the St John Ambulance Brigade here.

Kilburn is, of course, most famous for its White Horse, which was carved on the hillside above the village by the local headmaster John Hodgson in 1857, and for the intricate woodwork of 'mouse man' Robert

The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre).

This area was developed after 1885 on land owned by the Freehold Land Society. In the distance is the newly-opened Felix Hotel of 1903.

The drinking fountain of 1870, which was moved to the Abbey Gardens in 1939, was given by the Marquis of Bristol.

Although once very wealthy, the abbey was in a state of severe decline by the 1530s, and was thus an obvious target for the Dissolution in 1539.

Burwell means 'spring by the fort'.

The solid stone structure of the Midland Bank building stands at the central junction, where the main A225 to Deptford is crossed by the A25 linking Maidstone and Westerham.