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This photograph was taken at a time when Solva's harbour was reaching the end of its time as a working harbour - the quay with its array of small boats looks somewhat run down.

There are remnants of medieval buildings in the town. For most of its history, though, it has had a quiet time, as we might guess from this photograph.

It was originally a 14th-century timber- framed house, the home of the Pakingtons, an old Roman Catholic family; there were once five avenues approaching it, but they were cut down before 1800.

The village store is on the right halfway down the road.The scene is similar today.

The 'new' Railway Inn opened along Birkenhead Road on 1 December 1938, allowing the old inn to be pulled down and the site turned into a car park.

She recalled Pudding Pie Nook, thatched cottages knocked down and replaced by bungalows. In 1910 Mr Tod Hull was the oldest resident.

This photograph shows Witton Gilbert's war memorial in its original position on part of the dene on a popular and well used walk down to a bathing hole where people used to swim, and where parents brought

Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

There was also a blacksmith down the road where there could be horses being shod, and there are no TV aerials. The village water was still probably obtained from the roadside tap on the left.

Between Seaford and Eastbourne the South Downs reach the sea in spectacular style with chalk cliffs rising sheer over 500 feet from the sea.

To most people, it means Stonehenge and Salisbury, or somewhere that appears on a sign as travellers rush up and down the M4 motorway, heedless of what is around them.

The Epsom Downs railway line was opened in 1865, and branched south from Sutton station to its first stop, which was Belmont.

A bus to Pedders Lane and Ashton-on-Ribble plies down Fishergate, but so busy has Preston become, that drastic alterations in regulating traffic have had to be made.

rough-cast, three-storied and three-gabled public house was built in 1615 beside the 12th-century flint church of St John the Evangelist, and its ales quenched the thirst of race-goers who flocked to Merrow Downs

close to Cheltenham that it is often mistaken as a suburb; but there is nothing suburban about it, for it has plenty of old-world charm and the identity of a long-established village in its own

We are looking westwards down East Hill, towards the parish church (centre).

The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.

The town, now more peaceful since the A303 bypass was completed, is mostly built in the warm golden Ham stone with Georgian and 19th-century frontages.

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. Here we see a workplace with an open-air view; the craftsmen are taking a breather.

There was still an empty beach, apart from a few out-of-season bathing machines, between the town and its northern hamlet which begins with Cliff Cottage and Shore Cottage (upper left

The view down the street in 1950 is not greatly different from 50 years before, although a car has replaced the pony and trap.

It can be a long dangerous slide down the tiered sea walls to the sands and pier. The smart new flight of steps allowed ladies in long dresses to make a dignified descent.

At this time, local industry was closing down; Bacup, which was off the beaten track, was looking for residents to commute to work in Burnley, Manchester or other towns.

The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.