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Listed in the Domesday Book as 'Eleacier', the town's name tells us that this was once 'Aelle's field or ploughed land'.

The inn's name, the Foresters' Arms, hints that the village stands on the southern hilly fringe of Ashdown Forest. The inn was originally a private house - it was first a licensed premises in 1898.

The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

The railway (in the 1950s the LNER's east coast main line) brought further prosperity; this included the building of a new town hall in the 1860s, seen here with its clock tower.

The New Inn, sporting its new Watney's Red Barrel sign by the door and the sign board with the house style lettering, stands up the hill in Road Weedon on the old London to Holyhead turnpike.

After the First World War, there were plans to divide Westley Heights into 231 small plots of land and offer them for development.

We are looking north along Wallasey Village, with the bollards at the top of Leasowe Road visible on the left. The cobbled street to the immediate left, just beyond the chemists, is Lycette Road.

Originally Eastgate Street, this street was renamed Caroline Street after Countess Caroline of Dunraven.

At the time of this photograph, it appeared that the canal network was moving towards a final decline.

The sun is shining on another outstanding Hampshire village with some timeless timber-framed cottages and nicely cut hedges. The broadcaster Sir David Frost is rumoured to live here.

When one looks at the immaculately maintained gardens here, with flower beds and lawns that require a great deal of attention, it is easy to understand why so many such areas have disappeared

In 1925 the Square was beginning to show the degree of traffic problems that were to blight the town in future years.

The large domes are those of the Opera House, which opened in 1902 and served as a theatre, later as a cinema and a bingo hall; today it is a J D Wetherspoon pub.

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

The initials of the former can still be seen on the premises of the NatWest in Westgate Street.

The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

On the north bank, Embankment Gardens were laid out in the late 1880s with wide tree-lined walks along the river bank.

At the end of a lane near the Ouse the parish church is grouped with Church Farm.

Of this good 1830s terrace only two bays survive, those to the left of W H Smith, the pet and garden stores, which also retain the shopfront which was added to the house's facade.

Pettit's Stores on the right is now the Grapes and a barber's shop.

The new mill was built around 1800 to take advantage of the Grand Union Canal's Wendover Arm or branch canal that opened in 1797.

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.

Its gradual decline in the face of the foreign package tour has been arrested, and it has a large resident population. The town has also developed as a conference centre.

People sit and watch life go by under the hexagonal arches of the Poultry Cross. For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.