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The main street and good shopping centre is made more pleasant by the Victorian glass arcade, useful in wet weather.

The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

In the gabled building was either Harry Benstead or William Terry, saddlers, followed by the Swan, run by Mrs Mary Newberry.

In the distance is the late 15th-century church, partly obscured by the Holy Trinity Hospital founded in 1573 by Sir Willlam Cordell.

The mills, which lie just outside the town, are owned by the Fox family and are still renowned for producing high quality flannel and material for nurses' uniforms.

From its depot in Reading, having stopped at Shinfield, Arborfield, Eversley and Yateley, a Thorneycroft J Type bus operated by the Thames Valley Traction Company has yet to make a pick up in Derby Green

This building is now dominated by the Methodist Church, which was built four years after this photograph was taken.

Inside, by contrast, the late 12th-century nave arcades are serene and perfectly proportioned, as befits a church owned by the mighty Thorney Abbey.

By the 1860s, their popularity, combined with technical innovation derived from the railways, led to the construction of purpose-built pleasure piers.

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.

A Norman castle was established here by the De Aton family. High Hall, to the left, dates from the 18th century.

This village is often called 'the Garden of Suffolk', something promoted by the local chemists Cleghorn and Owen, who produced the 'Garden of Suffolk Bouquet'.

The crew of a sailing dinghy are apprehensively watched by the relaxing occupants of a punt as it manoeuvres past in a steady breeze.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

Following the move of the gaol and assizes to Bodmin in 1842, the grounds were landscaped and turned into a pleasure park by the Duke of Northumberland.

In the distance is the late 15th-century church, partly obscured by the Holy Trinity Hospital founded in 1573 by Sir William Cordell.

In the church of St John the Evangelist, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house designed by the architect Norman

They continued to operate into the 19th century, until ousted by the steam packet service in about 1815.

Ultimately the quarries were overwhelmed by the cheaper Welsh slate.

The landward end of the 1840 foot long pier had already been submerged in 1970 by the enclosed Skegness Pier Amusements, although some of the original structure can be seen at the sea end.

The roofed building has been replaced by the Ayscoughfee Café, and the gardens include an impressive war memorial to Spalding's dead of both wars.

It was taken over by the Admiralty during the Second World War, and part of the surrounding estate was subsequently transformed into Layhill Prison.

It is fortunate to be bypassed by the A685 road to Kirkby Stephen.

These made-up foundations are the reason for the subsidence that afflicted the Museum shortly after opening, as evidenced by the badly misshapen windows at the front of the building.