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This view, looking west, shows E J Pipe's general store smothered in advertisements (left). This is now the Butley Oysterage, and the bay window has been removed.

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Eventually the West Cliff Hotel appeared, and the Princess Royal Hotel (right) was built here half a century later in the 1920s.

This view is taken looking north- west along Benyon Road towards the junction of Pound Street and Carshalton Road. The high brick wall in the distance belongs to Carshalton House.

Whitwell was home to two special industries - straw plaiting and watercress production.

To the west of Jervaulx lies this pretty village, nestling around the spacious green.

Chertsey Abbey was founded in 666 AD and has now almost completely vanished; much of its stonework was used at Henry VIII's Hampton Court after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The interior of St Andrew's is just as pleasing as the outside, with its four-bay nave arcades, quatrefoil piers and double-chamfered arches. These give a feeling of openness and comfort.

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Lying in the north west of the county, Mildenhall boasts one of the most magnificent churches in the region.

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

The church stands at the entry to Bodmin and was passed by everyone travelling through the county before the town was by- passed by the A30.

This attractive group, which makes the most of the possibilities of tile-hanging walls, is on the Petworth Road just south-west of the Green.

Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.

Looking northwards we see hostelries, public houses and stores straddle the streets, highlighting Penrith's importance as a thoroughfare on the London to Carlisle and North East to North

Highway improvements have swept away the Italianate and balustraded mid 19th-century buildings in front of the spire, which is that of St Paul's Church. At the far right is the Swan Hotel.

North-west from Kingsbury we go down Buckingham Street, passing the Wesleyan Church, now Aylesbury Methodist Church.

St Nicholas's Church was built at the abbey gates for lay abbey staff, tenants and workers, and for travellers to pray for safe onward journeys or who were about to cross the River Thames.

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

A market place since at least 1235, the west side shown here survives much better than the north side.

On their way to Aysgarth, carriages would pass through West Witton.

This is how we lived forty years ago: a quiet road, milk delivery by pony and trap to the pub, schoolchildren waiting for a bus - all bathed in sunshine.