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The Cistercians, like the Knights Templar, were not noted for their standards of personal hygiene and rarely washed.

By this time, one of the houses has become a shop. The Red Lion on the left is now the Hobgoblin.

The Industrial Photographers on the left have taken over from Freeman Hardy and Willis's shoeshop.

The narrow road has gone, widened in the name of progress.

A Tudor fort sitting on top of Beblowe Crag, Lindisfarne was raised for defence against the Scots.

The promenade provides a curious facility that seems less user-friendly than we might expect today and is more akin to a stadium.

The wooden swing bridge appeared on maps in 1847.

The town became a thriving port, from which 200 vessels a year carried 265,000 tons of Forest of Dean coal.

Designed by J W Stansby (who also designed the tower of Christ Church), St Paul's was built in 1868-69 at the expense of the Grand Junction Railway Company. The spire was added in 1888.

Straddling Stock Ghyll, which runs by the side of the main road, this curious little structure is probably the best-known feature of Ambleside.

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.

A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion of the stables

Maid Marian Way, built between 1958 and 1966, was a disaster: its crass dual carriageway cut a swathe that separates the castle area from the rest of the city.

Paglesham is a village of two parts, Church End and East End.

The 1950s and 1960s were ideal decades for taking to the quiet country roads and villages to enjoy the exhilaration of motor-car driving.

While the village lads pose for the camera and the girls stroll nonchalantly by on the other side, a `bullnose` Morris overtakes a horse and cart.

Additionally, two of the three shops on the left have now gained self-supporting roller blinds, whilst the furthest away still rests on its stilts.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

The photographer has certainly attracted a sizeable group of curious onlookers in this scene dominated by James Howell's store (right).

The original title of this photograph as it appears in the Frith archive is 'Jubilee Hall'.

Here there is a profusion of telegraph wires and power cables, but no TV aerials.

The post office has moved, and is no longer in the far distance on the right of the road.

This lovely thatched, half-timbered inn has stood on this site, alongside the connecting road from Birkenhead to Neston, since 1611.

The building to its left has been demolished to create a car parking area, and the ornate clock on the wall of W Sumpter's stationer's shop (left) is also, unfortunately, a thing of the past.