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Built at a total cost of £4000 including land, St Leonard's Church opened in 1873, the same year that St Leonard's district was created.

The gable end of the lifeboat house is seen in the background, almost at the end of the road through the village.

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

Looking through the Gate in to the Close, a notice on the doors is a reminder that they are shut every night at 11pm.

Great Haywood lies at the junction of the Trent & Mersey with the Staffs & Worcestershire canals.

The Hartmoor area of Devizes lies to the south. This photograph is a revealing view of old England.

Sandhurst has expanded enormously in the second half of the 20th century.

The loosely-coiled mooring ropes, the lobster pots, the Admiralty-style boat anchor and the nets provide clear evidence of a thriving fishing port, although the jetty was used also at this

A mixture of craft lie alongside the jetty awaiting to load.

At Cheesewring, a mile or two from St Cleer, there are dozens of mysterious stone monuments on the moor. They include megalithic stone circles, standing stones and old Celtic carved crosses.

The Harrow stands on the road to North Ockendon.

St Augustine's Bridge looks pretty much the same as it did at the beginning of the 20th century, though the trees have grown, the trams have gone, and there is neither a horse nor a pile of

This fine building adjoining School House was built at the same time, 1860.

The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements. Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.

On the left is the Sandbeck House Hotel (demolished 1972) with Walter Smyth's wooden photo studio in the front garden.

The three-gabled early 17th-century rendered building was for years hidden by scaffolding as it was shamefully demolished bit by bit. In this photograph it looks sound.

There is another explanation of Mullion's name - it was at one time called Porth Mellin, 'the cove of the mill', and a mill existed here until the 19th century.

Here we look along the present A246 to the east of the town, showing the Victorian terraced housing. Note the trees planted right at the edge of the kerb.

The two boys are posing at the south end of Highbridge Road near the junction with Belle Vue Road.

Although the Exe is a natural watercourse, it is also used as a conduit to bring water to both Tiverton and Exeter.

At this time, although authority had been obtained to electrify the system, this did not happen until it was taken over by the corporation in 1904.

A view of the steamer at Belfast Docks. There are still summer sailings from Belfast to the Isle of Man.

By the beginning of the 20th century, North Berwick was beginning to rival St Andrews.

This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.