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Situated on the high road between Cowes and Ryde, Binstead has views across the Solent to Spithead.

The apparently unusually sharp incline of the launching ramp serving the lifeboat helped a speedy departure from the housing.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was known as Saltre in 1210, and had become Salterne by 1405.

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

Jesus Lock is the limit of navigation on the River Cam for powered craft.

The harbour was at that time still the preserve of local fishermen, but today the area is monopolised by pleasure craft and luxury yachts.

William of Orange, whose statue looks away from the sea and towards England, landed at Brixham on 5 November 1688 to depose the Catholic King James II and to herald 'a glorious revolution'.

Details of capitals and moulded arches suggest a 14th-century origin.

At the time of this scene, the building would have been tenements. The children on the steps seem fascinated by the photographer.

In 1634, Charles I attempted to re-establish the Scottish Episcopal Church, and St Giles's was for a short period elevated to the status of a cathedral.

He was immortalised as Jingling Geordie in Walter Scott's 'Fortunes of Nigel'.

They were designed by Sydney Smith, Rector of Foston, and built in the 1820s after the site had been purchased by the County Committee for use as a gaol.

The shepherd and his dog tending their flock near Beachy Head epitomise the centuries-old pastoral economy of the downland region.

The line was opened in 1887 and had an enormous impact on the village, creating a dramatic increase in house and shop building to accommodate the large numbers of visitors.

Creepers and a vine threaten to overwhelm this charming pub in the hamlet of Hurtmore.

Across the Malden road, the parade of shops with flats above date from the mid 1930s.

The ancient Black Lion Hotel stands on the left. Awnings protect many of the shop fronts. Ye Olde Oak Hotel on the right still stands, but has changed its use - the cockerel sign remains, however.

Fishguard and Pembroke acted as reception points for the crews and passengers of the sunken ships. Pembroke is now also a popular yachting, building and repair centre.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

Ernest Oakley had taken over the running of the family business from his father James in 1918, but it was very much 'business as usual' for, amongst other things, the store is advertising

The church interior was restored in 1877, an event which caused the Reverend Sabine Baring Gould (of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' fame) to rush back from London to prevent his ancestors' memorials being

The row of shops and houses was built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries on the New Quay, which, as the name suggests, had only just been reclaimed from tidal mud.

Now Mark Mitchell has a new shop nearer to us but the old one is still there, painted white and with the addition of an end gable in the roof.