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In the days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands and

The long, battlemented single-storey building immediately in front of the west towers is the Galilee Chapel, built by Bishop Hugh Le Puiset, who was known more affectionately as Bishop Pudsey (1153-1195

Around AD 120, a mansio was built on a slight rise overlooking the site of the fort.

All seems to have been ready by 1511, despite the political vicissitudes of the times. In 1494, Henry VII decided to adapt the chapel of Henry II and Edward II as his tomb-house.

No town centre worth its salt was complete without its Co-op store. On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society.

There are a couple of traditional stories relating to Thomas's childhood.

This view looks out over the smoking chimney pots of Greenock and across the Firth of Clyde to the entrance to Gare Loch.

A turn-of-the-century view of the tramway construction taking place in the Steine. The pho- tographer is looking towards North Road.

This well-preserved stone (now in the care of the National Trust) is inscribed in Latin 'Carataci Nepus', that is, 'nephew of Caradoc'.

A large crowd can be seen in front of a temporary bandstand in a tent, a forerunner of the large canvas-covered bandstand.

Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory

Following the death of his wife Elizabeth from tuberculosis, John Bright's world was in shreds. Then along came Alderman Richard Cobden.

Built out of the local creamy-white limestone, the keep is 90 ft high and has six semi-hexagonal buttresses which rise above it to form mini-turrets.

The early harbour, built in the 1780s of red and grey sandstone, now forms the inner harbour. In the 1880s the harbour was enlarged with new piers and a breakwater.

Kingsdown stands on the coast where the white cliffs of Dover give way to the extensive shingle beach that runs eastwards to Walmer & Deal. Caesar is said to have landed in this vicinity in 55BC.

Of the 11 locks on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, this is something of a halfway house. It stands just upstream of the road to Hatfield Peverel, in an area sometimes known as World's End.

Following the move of the gaol and assizes to Bodmin in 1842, the grounds were landscaped and turned into a pleasure park by the Duke of Northumberland.

We are looking from the north end of the market place. A cattle and sheep market is in full swing.

Much of the eastern side of the street was destroyed by fire during the Civil War.

As we look at the church from Broadway, we get a closer view of how large it is.

This was the chantry chapel of St Thomas Becket, licensed 18 March 1377 in the reign of Edward III. It was in use as a grammar school from about 1566 to 1853, and since became ruinous.

Chapter Four takes a tour from east of Stamford into the fenland of Lincolnshire, mostly in the former administrative county of Holland, very much the flat country.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

Of the old inns of the Fylde, the Shovels, once called the Malt Shovels, is one of the oldest in Over Wyre. It began as an alehouse.