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Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

Inside the Castle, the photographer looks back to the gatehouse, which is basically 14th-century over a Norman archway, although the drum towers on this side are early 19th-century.

In this view we look back towards the Market Place along High Street with the Angel and the Red Lion in the middle distance on the left.

One such three-day visit by the king in 1634 is said to have set the duke back £15,000, a phenomenal amount of money in 17th-century England.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

Note the identical fold-back roofs fitted to each boat. This allowed everyone in the centre cockpit maximum exposure to the East Anglian weather.

Although the foundations of the church date back to the 13th century, the flint tower was only built in the 16th century.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

I wonder how the two children are to get their little boat back without wading into the water!

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

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.

The photographer looks back down the hill past 19th-century houses towards the village centre.

Cinderford is one of the two main towns in the Forest of Dean; its name reflects its involvement in the coal mining and iron working industries of the area, whose history reaches back to