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This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda

The delightful Temple Gardens once extended right the way down to the river.

These cottages lie on the road down from the school, one of the first church schools in Somerset. The thatch looks so picturesque today.

Shrawley is a very ancient settlement, its woodlands sloping down to the River Severn.

Even the weathercock was pulled down.

This awesome cleft's name derives from Old English words meaning 'wind gates' - a reference to the howling winds which blow down this limestone ravine, which was created under a tropical sea 350 million

Much of the church dates from the 14th century, but the old west tower fell down and was rebuilt in 1850; further restoration followed.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

After the 'bird cage' bandstand was taken down in about 1934 from its location on Grand Parade, it was moved east to the Redoubt Gardens; it is pictured here with a band in full swing.

This view looks north down the lane to Lower Limpley Stoke, with the railway curving along to the station beyond the locomotive water tower (now closed).

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Downholme, where stone houses slope down to the Swale, lies 5 miles west of Richmond. In the village is a 13th-century Norman church.

However, it was abandoned in 1912 and finally fell down in 1944.

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

A view east down Euston Road. To the right we can see the cupola of St Pancras's Church peeping above the Friends' Meeting House.

Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers. The New Inn is still there, offering rest and refreshment to visitors.

Trips down the river were as common then as they are today. It is regrettable that steam has given way to the internal combustion engine. Note the covered carriages waiting on shore.

This old town is at the heart of a region of fertile farming country known as the South Hams. This view looks down the main street towards the tidal estuary extending up from Salcombe.

The original west front collapsed along with its tower on Easter Monday 1786, bringing down much of the nave with it. The massive noble central tower dates from c1325.

Birch's pier was a victim of the Second World War: only the tollhouses remained after the damaged structure had been pulled down to assist the needs of a coastal gun battery.

Here the photographer has gone down Clay Lane to look north-east across the field towards the school seen in photograph No 34412.

As time went by, these machines were replaced by single-sex saloons that ran on rails down to the water, each with a number of cubicles.

The yawls parked on the beach were organised into two companies, the 'Up-towners' and 'Down-towners', with their respective headquarters at the lookout towers.

Further down the street Continental Motors are the local Michelin agents.