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This view is almost identical to R84007 (page 28), but the photographer has stepped back to include Huins on Market Place corner and its neighbours, E A Hodges and Boots the Chemist.

Beyond Barclays bank, on the left, the United Reformed Church is set back from the street. A cluster of bus signs has begun to gather on the left.

The Church of England School dates back to Victorian times, and occupied a site at the top of St Neots Road until 1987, when it was transferred to its present location in Ivel Road.

This view shows the back of the building.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again. The building is now much altered in appearance.

Unusually for this era, there is a walker with a back pack. He has stopped at Hedges' shop to replenish his stores.

The house itself ceased to be inhabited in 1934, but in recent years it has been renovated back to its former glory.

Bull baiting is recorded in Ashburton as far back as 1174 and, you would imagine, posed a serious threat to life and limb in such a confined space.

Over the years it has had various owners, and very little maintenance took place; it is now (in 2002) Club Eze, and is in the process of being brought back to its original condition.

It remained a Parliamentarian garrison for five years, and then the Luttrells were permitted to buy it back. Today it is owned by the National Trust.

Vegetables would be grown mostly by the villagers themselves in their own back gardens; most would bake their own bread and cakes. Their lives went slowly on, in an undisturbed rustic idyll.

In 1824, Lt Goldsmith and his crew managed to dislodge it, but the resulting outcry obliged him to hire tackle to lift it back.

Originally the village extended no further than Back Lane, Coldstream Lane, the High Street and the houses in the vicinity of the green, which we see in this photograph.

Local fishermen could always earn their beer money after the fort had fired off a few practice shots by salvaging the cannon balls and selling them back to the army.

This view is taken from the sandy Roman Bank path looking to Chapel Point.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

With the Mumbles Railway carrying as many as 40,000 passengers on a bank holiday, the village prospered. The name 'Mumbles' actually derives from the French 'mamelles', meaning 'breasts'.

Seen here from the south, across the bank of the small stream which flows through the village, the pale sandstone outline of St George's Church stands proudly in its churchyard.

On the left, set back and partly hidden by a tree, are the Public Buildings and St John's Hall.

By 1903, however, production had ceased, the population had dropped back to under 6,000, and traders were having a thin time of it - look at the empty streets here.

Next door is the National Provincial Bank branch, with the tailoring and foot- wear stores of Barnes further along the parade of shops.

This handsome crescent dates back to 1826 and was originally intended to be part of a seaside resort known as Anglesey, developed by the Marquis of Anglesey.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients