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If we look closely, we will see ladders reaching up to the eaves of The George Hotel, the white building behind the clock tower.

The not unlovely village of Saxelby is situated about a mile north of industrial Asfordby, and on a stream which empties into the River Wreake.

Not a hatless head to be seen as the open-top tram, en route to Frindsbury across the river, passes the lantern and railings of Eastgate House, threatening conflict with horse-drawn traffic.

Cardiff Docks were developed during the late 1830s by the 2nd Marquess of Bute, and were enlarged in the 1880s and again in the early 1900s.

Downhill to the south and across the River Maun, the High Street continues uphill to pass The Dukeries Hotel, now for some reason called Ma Hubbard's Eating House and Hotel.

We are looking westwards along the Grand Union Canal on its way to Birmingham, at point where it originally joined the Oxford Canal.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest

Market Hill was the hub of the town; here the stocks held felons two at a time until their crimes had been expiated.

In 1700s and 1800s, Barkway lay on the main coach route from London to Cambridge. The Angel Inn (later the Wheatsheaf) served as the main staging post for travellers.

It is time to relax in Marshall Gardens and look over Bridge Foot. To the left, Garlands Garage still has Austin and Wolseley cars for sale, whilst a steamroller rumbles past the Crosville bus stand.

Opened in May 1957 by Alderman Marshall, the flyover bridge replaced the Wilderspool railway crossing, a bottleneck on the main A49 highway.

Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town (Nick Thomas) A view of St Mary's Grove, opposite the Church.

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

The abbey was founded in 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers, afterwards Lord of the Island and Earl of Devon.

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

The steep, winding and narrow High Street (down which flaming tar barrels were rolled to the terror of the populace until the practice was banned in 1824) gives an excellent impression of

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.

This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film. Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

Helston Penrose Walk 1913 Penrose Walk runs from the bottom end of Coronation Park down to the Loe and follows its shore to Penrose.

If we look closely at our top photograph, we will see that the turrets and tower of the New Brighton Tower building are missing.

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s. The Norman-style windows to the right date from 1863, when this wing became the Probate Registry Office.

A ghaut (a Viking word) is a narrow passage leading to the river. There used to be an inn at the end of this one, so in the local dialect it became known as T'inn Ghaut.

Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.

East of Camberley, the route moves on to the villages between Bagshot and Guildford along the A322 on the east side of the sandy heathland of the Bagshot Sands; on the map we see army firing