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Beeching closed the railway line, and the village has been bypassed by the A541; the modern village website proclaims that 'there are no shops in Nannerch'.

Middle Beach (foreground) at Studland, is overlooked by the 1943-built Fort Henry on Redend Point (right-hand clifftop), which Canadian Engineers named for their home base in Ontario.

A church had been built by the local landowners at nearby Panatasaph, but the family converted to Catholicism. A bitter dispute followed, but the Bishop of St Asaph had to relinquish the church.

Only the clothes worn by the children give a clue to the date of this photograph. The vista has hardly changed in 60 years.

Inspired by the Theodosian Wall at Constantinople, its use at Caernarvon was deliberate and designed to impress.

The defensive capability of the tower parapet was enhanced by the fitting of machicolations, an overhang that allows the defenders to drop missiles on the heads of uninvited guests.

By the south transept is a celtic cross memorial to Thomas Harding of Dunsmore, a protestant martyr burnt in 1532.

Designed in the 1760s by the splendidly-named architect Stiff Leadbetter for William Drake, it replaced a 1630s house and was completed and decorated by Robert Adam.

Hewitts, the Free Church of 1913 and the hall beyond were demolished in 1963 and replaced by the tawdry flat-roofed three-storey Sycamore House flats, offices and shops.

J W Ebbs' electrical shop next door was once an ironmonger's, and was run by the father and grandfather of Sir David Frost.

This is the centre of Milford, with the road to Keyhaven and the coast on the right by the Midland Bank.

By the time the lake silted up in the 1830s, the name Hoylake had replaced Hoose, the original name of the village that nestled in the sand-hills on the fringes of Liverpool Bay.

The opening of the steelworks was followed by the building of a chemical plant at Baglan Bay by British Petroleum.

The buildings we see here were built by the Duke of Newcastle as a private residence in 1679, but were burnt out during the Reform Bill Riots of 1831.

When Windsor was besieged by the Dauphin of France in 1216, part of its defences were still wood and earth, though in 1221 its castellan Engelard de Cigogne was authorised to commence a series of works

A stronger bridge was officially opened by the vicar of Churchtown in 1984. The River Wyre flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood and rises near Tarnbrook in Wyresdale.

In the background is the 12th-century parish church of St Nicholas, which has been superseded by the ultra-modern church of St George in the 'new' town of Letchworth.

It was designed by William Huckville, and built by the local builders J Honour & Sons; it replaced the original museum in a shed at the bottom of the garden!

Actually, several more things have disappeared, including the signpost, which has been replaced by much smaller signs that are partially covered by the hedge.

Note the boats pulled up above the high- water mark, the free-range livestock grazing, and the vegetable plot by the cottage.

On Christmas Day, creaks and rumbles were heard, likened to thunder by farm workers and artillery fire by the veterans of Waterloo. The ground then shuddered and collapsed on Boxing Day.

All the coastline, comprising most of the parish of Stanton St Gabriel, was acquired by the National Trust between 1967 and 1972.

The first burial in the churchyard was in 1729; until then coffins were strapped to pack horses and taken by the 'corpse road' over Mardale Common for burial at Shap.

Extensive archaeological digs in recent years by the local university staff and students should throw more light on the history of Trelleck.