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It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Carshalton's ponds, which are spring-fed and lead to the River Wandle, are a most attractive feature in the centre of the village.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

Arthur Trevorrow is throwing a jug on the wheel; beside him are various examples of his work, beautifully hand-decorated with slip in waves, whorls and dots.

This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

As we look toward West Pier from the west, we see the landward pavilion at the right, then the tower of the Metropole to its left. Nearer the camera are a range of somewhat disparate stucco fronts.

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

Down at Church End there is another more well-known and photographed pond; it and the 13th-century parish church are to the left of the War Memorial.

From the south-east, a look at the Institute, which has now sprouted a clock, put up in 1891 in memory of Thomas Cramp, the town's diarist and total abstainer.

The church has an exceptional 15th-century tower, built of squared granite blocks and 97 feet high.

During the early years of the 18th century, facilities were improved with the construction of a harbour and quays.

The castle eventually passed into the hands of the Neville family, and in 1471 Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came here to be tutored by the Earl of Warwick.

This view pre-dates the Swinging Sixties, with echoes of a less materialist era: the Gothic-arched building on the right is the former Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School of 1903.

This tranquil scene, showing the church of St Mary, tastefully rebuilt in 1860 by Henry Woodyer, and the picturesque village stores and post office, gives little hint of a gruesome legend which developed

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

All survives in Bridge Street, which leads out of the south- east side of the Market Place in the distance.

Out of view to the right and spanning the canal is the former Pickford's Depository, a warehouse built in the early 19th century in yellow brick (the rest of the town is in red brick).

Red Bank is one of the spots from which you can cross the sands over to Kents Bank.

Having accommodated men of the United States 1st Infantry Division before they left Weymouth and Portland to land on Omaha Beach in the D-Day invasion, Freshwater Holiday Camp remains one of the busiest

He was the first Catholic Lord Mayor of London since the reformation, and St Raphael's was the first Catholic Church to be built in Kingston since this time.

The advent of the railways in the mid 19th century was to enhance the use of the Thames for pleasure as day-trippers took to the water in punts and sailing boats.