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The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr Price

Originally, Grove Street was the turnpike road to Manchester, and there was a toll bar at this junction, a great annoyance to Wilmslow people who objected to having to pay to go down their

One would not now dream of walking down the centre of this road. The line of the paling on the left marked the boundary of the old Borough of Petersfield.

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

Further down, on the pavement, is the town`s pump.

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.

Further down on the right was the Phoenix, the scene of Hardy's poem 'The Dance at the Phoenix'.

The impressive and imposing ruins of Malmesbury Abbey look down on the river Avon 60 feet below.

At the head of the pier we can see the cliff lift, still operating today, transporting passengers from the town down to the sea front.

Polegate, with its typical flint walls and buildings, lies just below the extreme eastern end of the South Downs.

It stands below Efford Down, on top of which is the Storm Tower, also built by Acland.

Note the goods piled outside on the pavement outside Jackson's hardware store on the right, and the horse and cart further down the street.

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Eventually the steep paths lead down to the sea at Holy Well where sea bathing is possible, although the notice warns that it is dangerous when the red flag is flying.

With the grassy downs behind, this is a most delightful medieval church: small and intimate, set in a well treed churchyard, with a most unusual stone bell turret, battlemented and carried on big corbels

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

Holiday bungalows and chalets line the skyline, and the Cove Café is perched on a shelf halfway down the cliff (centre).

Behind us is the entrance to Dunmow`s secondary school, Helena Romanes, which was built in 1958-59 to replace the Council School on the Downs.

Cheap Street, off Market Place and now pedestrianised, retains its medieval and Tudor character: it has a stream running down its centre in a channel.

She painted the original cottages on this site just before they were pulled down amid much outcry in 1885, and replaced by these mock-Tudor buildings.

Passengers occupying the roof seats were able to enter the hotel directly through an upper door, saving them the nuisance of having to clamber down from the coach.

Its former watermill, also partly Tudor, is approached down a short leafy lane and has in recent years been carefully restored.