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This village is often called 'the Garden of Suffolk', something promoted by the local chemists Cleghorn and Owen, who produced the 'Garden of Suffolk Bouquet'.

The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house. Further down the street is the gable of the Methodist chapel. In the distance is the sign of the Wheatsheaf.

Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby. The wide, open green provides space for visitors.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

A turning to the A35 is opposite it, and here we find Leominstead Lakes, where trout fishing is available daily.

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance.

This parade of large shops and houses are just round the corner from the station. The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr Price

This was Wilmslow`s main shopping street after the war, and by 1955 the traffic restrictions had started to appear, with the no-waiting signs at the top of the street.

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

This was true, the council wanted the land for '… road improvements, public offices, a fire station, baths and washhouses and sanitary conveniences.'

Teas with Hovis bread, Ellis Wilkinson's mineral waters, Pyper's Ices, sweets, fruit drinks, teas and refreshments were all obtainable by the cross at Hurst Green.

This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

The majestic sweep of the fertile fields down to the coast is also marked by the workings and spoils of man's need for the stone that is quarried from the mountain on this stretch of the coast.

In December 2000, it was estimated that 400,000 cubic metres of earth was slowly moving down the side of Leith Hill.

These were the days when blazers and boaters were de rigeur for a trip down the river to Eccleston.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

This is also the highest tidal point up to which shipping once came; but as this view shows, the quays and channel became silted by material washed down the river.

They weigh up to 40 tons each, and were brought from Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, about 20 miles away, from a surface quarry that can still be visited.

The area between the White Cross and the photographer is now occupied by Richmond Riverside, a splendid collection of 1980s Georgian-style office blocks by Quinlan Terry above a zig-zag of ramped terraces

In this view we look down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left beyond the cart.