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Beyond the still- functioning railway station, the lane reverts to its pre-railway name of Stoke Lane, and heads for the Trent between an avenue of fine Lombardy poplars.

From peaceful Arlington our route passes Arlington Reservoir before heading south to cross the A27 to Drusilla's Park, one of Sussex's major tourist attractions.

The school moved to the above buildings from Coulsdon in 1948, when two head teachers acquired Pirbright from Sir Walter and Lady Moberly.

The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south. We start close to Stourhead, at King Alfred's Tower.

The horse chestnuts (left) belong to the Rookery woods, while on the right is Nag's Head Island with A W H Halford's premises, the long shed-like structure, offering boats for hire.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

The stable block is now used as a restaurant and tea room, and the topiary of a Manners peacock and a Vernon boar's head in the garden at the front has now grown much larger.

It was built in 1843; for a further ninety years after this photograph was taken, it offered both a warning and guidance for ships passing north along the white cliffs, and for those heading

This photograph shows the Cannon Street end of King William Street, which heads south-east from the Mansion House towards London Bridge.

The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.

The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled safely.

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

The western slopes up towards Beachy Head were much favoured for convalescent homes, for they were considered very healthy.

This ancient cross head bearing a crude carving of a crucifix must pre-date the church by many centuries. The texture of the coarse granite of the district can be seen in the steps.

It was originally a fordrough (a rough unmade track) across the fields of Shirley Farm, which used to be opposite the Saracen's Head.

The pier is seen here in its heyday, complete with its Mikado Concert Hall erected at its head in 1912.

Standing at the head of the Eastern Valley, in an industrially ravaged landscape, Blaenavon was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000.

The temperature is rising and on a hot day in the early 1960s it seems as if all of Rochdale has headed for the lake.

The bus stop outside the Britannia public house is for bus numbers 26, 26A, 39 and 40; opposite, a No 26 bus heads for Gravesend.

This is Loves Lane leading off the Main Street and heading for Horn Mill. There is a mixture of housing from thatched and tiled to prefabricated postwar styles.

The house was built in 1715 - or that, at least, is the date on the rainwater heads.

Shown here is the font, carried on the heads of four angels, who each bear a medallion; the one on the left depicting ears of wheat.

Many of the people enjoying the sands below Heysham Head would be staying at the nearby holiday camp, which offered an 'all-in' break, with meals and nightly dancing or variety shows included.

Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath