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This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.

There is more than one way to catch a fish; onlookers must be amused at the antics of the unsuccessful fishermen.

What a scene this is, with bathers in the water, and gentlemen sitting on benches putting the world to rights. Tourists are ordering tickets for the twice-nightly end-of-the-pier show.

Wales's oldest university is located here; it was established in 1822, and has brought a cosmopolitan complexion to this ancient and most distant of towns.

The canal was built between 1797 and 1812 to link Brecon with Newport and the Severn Estaury.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

S R Lovatt, on the right, had originally specialised in cheese and in other provisions such as bacon and butter, but as its window display indicates it sold general groceries as well.

Here we see landslipped Langmoor Gardens (left) before the building of retaining walls and amusement arcades.

Wartling is another parish like Herstmonceux, with its parish church and part of the village over a mile south of the main road and on the edge of the Pevensey Levels.

It has a medieval parish church in the western part of the village, but all is not as it seems in this view from the east.

Claygate lies southwards beyond the A3 Kingston and Esher by-pass, and into the preserved countryside of the Green Belt.

This small green is at the north end of the village - the Bull's Head pub stands on the left out of the picture.

Until the mid 19th century, Abingdon grew little beyond its Tudor limits, but in the 1860s an estate of villas around a public park was set out to the north of Ock Street.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

The church is dedicated to St Wilfrid, the Archbishop of York in the 660s. Wilfrid is a northern dedication, and usually denotes an ancient church.

The spire of St Peter's Church can be seen from all parts of Horbury.

The most notable is the building of the Ritz Cinema next to the Empire, and the street certainly is a lot busier than in the earlier view.

The Druids' Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

Looking East from Wood Street An inn has stood on this site for 400 years.

This little road, climbing steeply from Ambleside through stark countryside to join the main Windermere to Ullswater road at the top of the Kirkstone Pass, has long been known as 'The Struggle'.

One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.