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Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby.

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 post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house.

This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

In December 2000, it was estimated that 400,000 cubic metres of earth was slowly moving down the side of Leith Hill.

The majestic sweep of the fertile fields down to the coast is also marked by the workings and spoils of man's need for the stone that is quarried from the mountain on this stretch of the coast.

Teas with Hovis bread, Ellis Wilkinson's mineral waters, Pyper's Ices, sweets, fruit drinks, teas and refreshments were all obtainable by the cross at Hurst Green.

These were the days when blazers and boaters were de rigeur for a trip down the river to Eccleston.

They weigh up to 40 tons each, and were brought from Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, about 20 miles away, from a surface quarry that can still be visited.

The area between the White Cross and the photographer is now occupied by Richmond Riverside, a splendid collection of 1980s Georgian-style office blocks by Quinlan Terry above a zig-zag of ramped terraces

In this view we look down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left beyond the cart.

This is also the highest tidal point up to which shipping once came; but as this view shows, the quays and channel became silted by material washed down the river.

In these, ladies changed into their swimwear and the whole contraption was pushed into the sea.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

Looking down the lane, towards Cannock Chase, note the railway bridge which carried the line between Colwich junction and Macclesfield.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

We can see Pendle Hill and Black Hill in the background.

On the left a woman stands in the door of the Post Office, which in 1895 also acted as a money order and telegraph office.

It is quite remarkable to see the crowds of Londoners poured into Southend by steamboat and excursion train on a fine summer's day.

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

Blinkhorn & Son is clearly to be seen on the left, and beyond that is Currys electrical store, which also sold cycles.