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As the popularity of the Thames at Kingston increased, provision was made to cater for the increasing numbers.

The river also gains from the wide expanse of open ground at Hampton Court, where the wind (coming mainly from the south west) is unimpeded by buildings.

Local delivery of purchases by bicycle could still have been available at this time, though the bicycle in front of the shop appears to be a customer`s, as there is no large basket frame

The projecting sign of Boots (centre) certainly helped to advertise its presence.

This is one of the very few shops that still observe half-day closing - each Wednesday it closes at 1pm.

The row of white posts form an attractive (and safe) barrier at the pond`s edge.

St Peter`s Church was built in 1846, replacing a much earlier place of worship on this site.

The sinuous valley of the Tattenham Corner branch- line threads its way through the contours at the foot of Banstead Downs on the right.

In pagan times the number seven was of special superstitious importance, and examples of Seven Springs are found at other places in the Cotswolds. below: STROUD, Butter Row, Old Pyke

It was near here in June 1839 that a passenger on a boat to London, Mrs Christina Collins, was brutally beaten, raped and murdered.

The Nag's Head public house was one of many around Stafford controlled by Joule's Brewery of Stone, established in the 18th century and closed in 1972.

East and to the left of this view, the St Audries Bay Holiday Club occupies the cliff tops at the end of a winding lane that descends from the main road.

Past Crowcombe's fine parish church, turn left onto a narrow lane that winds to Triscombe. Here the lane descends to the hamlet past Triscombe Farm with its thatched barn.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

Even though there are no leaves on the trees, Lord Street is still busy; as at Blackpool, trippers visit all year round.

The name 'saltern' suggests that this was a place where early inhabitants of the island would come to the sea- shore in search of salt for the winter preservation of meat.

The Hindhead crossroads were named after this hotel, which at one time had been an isolated hut on the Portsmouth Road from which bilberries or whortleberries were sold to travellers.

Bathing has not always been the family pastime it is today. 'Tommy's Pit', built at the end of the breakwater, was strictly men only, while women used Crooklets beach, then named Maer Beach.

This shows the first of the plague of holiday chalets which swept along the cliffside before planning regulations prevented their building.

Dairy cattle still crop the meadows around the village of Alderholt, and are still taken in for milking much as we see here.

The Globe at Swanage was carved from a great mass of stone, ten feet in diameter and forty tons in weight.

The village stands on the east side of the Towy where the river breaks out to sea through a widespread expanse of sandbanks at low tide.

At the Reformation, Battle Abbey passed to Sir Anthony Browne. The last monk to leave is said to have cursed him with the words 'by fire and water shall thy line perish'.

Penrith, 'capital' of the northern Lake District, is an attractive red sandstone market town. But it did not escape the 'Poets' Corner' craze for street-naming of the late 19th century.