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You could be forgiven for thinking Stoke Park looks vaguely like Washington's White House, for there is an American connection.

The roaring waters of the weir are by-passed by Stoke Lock, out of view to the right.

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

This 17th-century inn, apparently referred to in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Speckled Band, stands by the junction of Stoke Road and Station Road.

John Stokes, a 15th-century clothier, built the north aisle; the chancel was rebuilt in 1876. The Perpendicular font, dug up in 1939, is octagonal, with a pattern of quatrefoils in circles.

The houses ae Polly's and Clayhanger (left) and Stoke Lodge (cetre) with the terraces being No 16 to No 6 (right).

In April 1956, Commander Lionel Crabb, Britain's finest frogman, disappeared whilst diving at Stokes Bay, Gosport. On 17 April, Mr Crabb had stayed overnight at the Sallyport Hotel in Old Portsmouth.

Next right is now a New Look fashion store; it stands on the site of the Novum Hospitium, where the Vicars Choral lived before 1382.

Today the view is quiet and smoke-free, but this was not always the case; Llanelli was once the tin plate capital of the world.

This view looks out over the smoking chimney pots of Greenock and across the Firth of Clyde to the entrance to Gare Loch.

The smoke and fumes discharged from the chimney would have smoked up the windmill when it was downwind. The steam mill probably did most of the work, as it was the most reliable power source.

Note the smoke stack of a paddle steamer tied to the Lighthouse Pier.

The winding gear and smoke-belching chimney of the colliery dominate the end of the council houses of West End Lane, New Rossington, at a time when coal was still king in South Yorkshire.

The busy port on the River Liffey, showing several steamers with smoking funnels waiting to depart and, on the right, a forest of masts of sailing ships.

Bourlet the whole- sale confectioner and tobacconist is offering a selection of smoking mixtures—Rajah cigars, Capstan Navy tobacco, Klondyke cigarettes and Leake's Fine Shag.

The narrow lane winds between thatched cottages, the fine example in the foreground featuring a tall chimney to carry the hot smoke safely away.

In 1906, Paisley was described as a 'smoke-begrimed industrial town on the Cart with 79,355 inhabitants and large thread, shawl and corn-flour factories'.

The narrow lane winds between thatched cot- tages, the fine example in the foreground featuring a tall chimney to carry the hot smoke safely away.

On one occasion, the boilers backfired and they had to escape because of all the black smoke.

The Crown is a 200-year-old pub that once hosted 'smoking concerts'. The plasterwork crown above the entrance is dated 1874.

In the left distance can be seen smoke rising from the gasworks beside the falls.

In the left distance can be seen smoke rising from the gasworks beside the falls.

Note also the metal hoarding advertising Westward Ho Smoking Mixture. The house to the right has been rebuilt, with the building line preserved.

The horizontal plume of smoke from the funnel of the ship moored off Sun Pier suggests that the glass shelter on the right might have offered welcome protection from an off- shore breeze