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As the sun goes down, the only activity at sea comes from fishing boats and one or two yachtsmen.

The King's Arms is situated at the heart of this peaceful community.

It is a few years after No R87001 (above), and the High Street is still almost deserted - just a couple of cars but no pedestrians, despite the new-fangled zebra crossing.

The church of St James at Hemingford Grey comprises a chancel, a vestry, north and south aisles, a nave, a tower and a south porch. In 1741, the spire was blown off in a great gale.

It is the site of the first lock on the Thames, which has been rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock for the passage of pleasure boats.

Originally it was detached from the main building, but was incorporated at some time between 1298 and 1363 when the choir was reconstructed.

Langton Matravers acquired a reputation for quality education during the last century, thanks to its well-known preparatory schools. Many a schoolboy probably bought sweets at Priors' Village Stores.

Seen here at low tide, where Friar's Fleet meets the London Road, the early 16th century Southgate is one of the few remaining sections of King's Lynn's town walls.

Seaside entertainment at Felixstowe had not yet progressed to the garishly commercialised pursuits of today. Donkey rides were a traditional favourite, along with rides in carriages pulled by goats.

There has been a ferry at Farndon for centuries; these days the village offers river users extensive facilities, including a large marina created out of some old gravel pits.

On our way back to Camberley we arrive at the Dukes Head public house. Notice the telegraph poles supplying the new telephone system to those who could afford it.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'.

This is where Shakespeare and his friends met their match at the hands of the Bidford Sippers.

Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865. It was known later as the Cotton Exchange.

Prior to this, the Old Town Hall (1780), the offices of The Hampshire Post and Pince's School obscured the view of St Peter's from the Square. In 1898 these buildings were pulled down.

By the end of the Victorian period the scale of amenities offered by larger boarding houses, such as the Eardley Boarding Establishment at Splash Point, often overlapped with those of newly erected

In 'Pride and Prejudice' Jane Austen calls Hatfield 'a busy little street that leads to my Lord Salisbury's house'.

This thatched cottage sits at the northern end of the village and was once a pub whose custom came from those travelling to and from Shropshire.

Motor vehicles dominate the scene in this market day picture, and at least one trader has crossed over the border from Lancashire to sell his wares.

Empty barges waiting to be towed back down the river are tied up at the embankment alongside the Portsmouth Road where it becomes the High Street.

Cawood was once a busy port on the River Ouse with boat building and a ferry.

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co's 'Mona's Queen' eases out of Fleetwood on a summer sailing. During the Great War the paddler was employed on trooping duties across the Channel.

By the gate leading into the churchyard are the overhanging eaves of the old priest's house, later to become the centre of the local Girl Guides troop.

King John's bridge has straddled the Avon at Tewkesbury for some 800 years.