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On seeing the ruined shell of this church today, the visitor may well get the immediate impression that it must have suffered from bombing during the war; but in fact the nave was demolished in 1977

It stands amidst semicircular flower beds, and forms the focal point of the gardens.

We now move east to The Poultry, the street along the south side of the Council House.

The route leaves Newark and heads six miles west to the small and delightful town of Southwell, whose minster church had been founded by the Archbishop of York before AD956.

A fishing village and yachting centre located on a creek of Chichester Harbour.

This stone, which marked the grave of a Viking warrior, was his resting spot for over 1,000 years: it is from the 10th century.

The station approach is off to the left in front of the 'Catering' sign.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Towards the southern end of London Road, the 'tip-up' cart is parked waiting for its horse to be harnessed, whilst a milk cart (left) winds slowly up the hill towards the Congregational church close to

Education here probably started in 1135, when the Knights Hospitallers built their hospice on the site. Some of the material used in its construction dates from Roman times.

Kimpton was one of the Hertfordshire villages that kept up the tradition of celebrating May Day.

In 1922 the Vincentian Spanish fathers acquired a plot of land at Hillside in Barnet Road to provide a training facility for young priests to foreign missions.

H P Farr, watchmaker and jeweller, took over the premises on the right shortly after the end of the Second World War, and he remained here until the mid 1960s.

St Mary's, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire.

The disappearance of the horse is marked in these pictures, probably taken on a Tuesday — by now, Tuesday had become Market Day.

It was closed in 1878 and subsequently became the headquarters of the Pembrokeshire Police. In 1967 the building was converted to house the Pembrokeshire County Museum and Records Office.

The disappearance of the horse is marked in these pictures, probably taken on a Tuesday — by now, Tuesday had become Market Day.

George Richardson's early career was spent as a draughtsman in the office of Robert and James Adam, and indeed he was a fine interior designer in the Adam style, providing a number of drawings for Kedleston

This view from the middle of the Market Place is not much altered since 1922. The view towards the Royal Hotel and Lloyds Bank is almost unchanged.

Leading north off Warwick Road, Frog Lane is one of most attractive lanes in the village, albeit now interspersed with modern houses of the 1960s onwards.

It was the seat of the De Braoses, with a mighty stone castle; but its keep of about 1100 is now merely a fragment, for the market and town migrated to nearby Steyning when the Adur silted up.

The southern gateway of the outer bailey once guarded a small dock situated where the moat met a channel dug from the sea.

On the right is the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, which was converted from a school in 1887 by E Ingress Bell. It is a rather undistinguished building.

The canalised stretch of the River Chess was opened in 1803 for Samuel Salter to ferry barrels between his Rickmansworth and Uxbridge breweries via the Grand Junction Canal.