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The church, noted for its low battlemented 15th-century tower, dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

Part of the church dates back to around 1400, though there have been a great many later additions. Moseley, a mere two miles south of Birmingham, has now become a suburb of that great city.

In 1907, a room at the Hop Pole cost 4s a night, and dinner would set you back 3s 6d.

We are looking back towards the castle, now Kimbolton School.

The doors at the back of the sentry boxes have already been opened, and the new guard is in the yard. The buildiing, the oldest purpose-built barracks in England, was completed in 1759.

Traffic levels are almost back to those of the 1950s. Little has changed, except that the brewery beyond the Bull Inn is now offices and housing.

This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open sea.

Motor cruisers are moored along the public bank, and a young lad is quanting (a method of propelling by means of a pole, similar to punting) a dinghy along the shallow waterway.

As a result, tanners and shoemakers set up in business along its banks.

One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

Two girls play with a hoop on the banks of the Thames, not far from Staines. Historically, Staines marked the end of the jurisdiction of the City of London over the river.

One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.

This is the long, staid High Street of this small village on the banks of the river Lea viewed from the opposite direction from photograph No 81859, with the Pied Bull over on the left, and the bow-fronted

Hamworthy is on the right bank.

The school, now a museum and library, sits comfortably beneath the bank on which the parish church of St?Michael, seen in the background, stands.

Its inn sits about a mile away looking out over the River Severn with its back to the road - in fact, it was originally built to serve boatmen travelling along the river, but no-one comes that way now.

Taken from a position further back than 80576 (note the arches probably added in the 19th century that have since been removed).

This scene, with its rocky riverbed and tree-clad banks, has hardly changed in a century.

The large house on the left has been built on South Back Way with a pleasant southerly aspect and a spacious garden.

The new outside market stalls which stretch along the Peel Street side and the back of the Market Hall were built in 2003 to replace the concrete umbrella market, which was demolished in 2002.