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Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.

Travellers on the A25 cannot fail to see the scars on the south side of the North Downs that were once the Betchworth quarries.

Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

We are looking in the same direction, only this time the view is taken from lower down the road, and shows the fine villas very much associated with the town.

The lane leads to Alfriston further down the Cuckmere River, a popular tourist village with its Clergy House.

Behind us stretches a shingle bank down to Orford and beyond, where the Alde meets the sea.

It is close to the lane that goes down to the village school, and faces one of the entrances to the railway station from where these men departed forever.

The road then led down to Harlow Mill on the Stort and the bridge into Hertfordshire.

In full armour, knights rode down the lists, trying to unhorse one another with lances. The castle is now a ruin.

Over the years encroachments have closed down this open space, but this may be excused by the quality of the flat-fronted Georgian buildings in the photograph.

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Gardens slope down to the river, and thick canopies of trees at the water's edge keep the wind from the sails of boats.

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.

With rows of charming buildings and the River Nene flowing on three sides of it, Oundle has often been described as Northamptonshire's most delightful town.

Campbell's ships still visited, and although their operations were drastically scaled down, the end of the summer season was still a time for fireworks, parties and celebration.

Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal

This little village stands on the edge of a cove in the chalk cliffs of South Foreland, where the road drops steeply down to St Margaret's Bay; it clusters around an impressive Norman church, built around

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar