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A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

Both are large; the north one is the more select, and the south more popular – just a penny pier where dancing goes on all day in the summer.

Another fine window, designed by Morris & Co Ltd in the 19th century, can be seen in the south aisle situated in front of St Aldhelm`s chapel.

From the south bank the photographer looks across to Queenhithe dock. Although the river bank is relatively unchanged, all the riverside buildings have gone, the last only in 1996.

South-east of Crewkerne, past its factories and over the railway, is the village of Misterton, which lies along the A356 Dorchester road.

South Holmwood's fire station was once just to the left of this picture, and the post office (extreme left), doubled up as Crofts', bakers and confectioners.

Its ales can be tasted in pubs across the south of England.

In 1922 it was taken over by the Great Western Railway whose acquisition of every South Wales port instantly made them the world's largest dock owner.

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

The Natwest Bank and the Alliance and Leicester on the south side are the finest examples, with the flint-fronted No 30 and the brick HSBC Bank in Cornmarket almost as good.

Across the Witham, Avenue Road becomes Beacon Lane and passes the old barracks of 1858 and 1872 of the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia, now occupied by an auctioneers and valuers.

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

North and South Promenades had undergone great changes by this date. Ashton Gardens, mainly provided by Lord Ashton, were formerly St George's Gardens.

Lines of local authority housing climb the hill at Stanmore on the south-west outskirts of Winchester, which has evolved and expanded over the years.

Hythe pier is the longest on the south coast, jutting out into Southampton Water opposite Netley. It was opened to the public in 1881, and is one of only a couple in this country with a railway.

Here we see picturesque timber-framed cottages in the centre of Fittleworth, to the south-east of Petworth.

The spur buttresses that were added as an emergency measure on the north and south sides can clearly be seen in this view.

As well as its three main arches, the bridge also has six smaller flood arches across the fields on the south bank.

This view shows the approach to the village from the south, with the open space of Ellerthwaite Square having no shortage of motor traffic even at this early time, including an omnibus (right).

These days Hopes Green is simply a westward extension of South Benfleet, but it started life as a hamlet of fishermen's cottages.

The Grammar School, on Normanby Road, South Bank was opened in 1955.

Its growth, however, owed much to the development of coal mining to the east and south-west, and later to the north-west. By 1914 the population stood at about 13,000.

Others areas where dolomite was being quarried included Marsden and to the south of Seaham Harbour.

The grassy sward in the foreground is now the Helen Garden, and the middle distance is dominated by South Cliff Tower, an unfortunate eighteen-storey block of flats built in 1966 that sits ill amid