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This picture is taken at the top of old Harnham Road, looking back down towards the bridge.The cottages on the right are still there today, but much else has changed—and not many people would sit

The larger machines shown here ran down to the water on rails, and had a number of cubicles. Affluent visitors would hire single-cubicle machines for themselves.

In summer months there is an atmosphere of palpable excitement here, as an endless stream of people winds its way down the hill into the heart of the town, turning at the old granite church of St Ia into

Looking in the opposite direction from the Coffee Tavern, this view of Hadleigh's High Street shows the George public house and, further down on the same side, the White Lion Hotel.

The crew, it is said, settled down at Beer, married the local womenfolk and repopulated the community.

This labour-intensive work was done by poor London families coming down for their annual paid holiday.

It is difficult to equate this tumble-down cobbled street with today's unattractive Westgate.

The village below the Crag was once owned by Fountains Abbey, and was the site of a manor court. The Crag itself is probably Wharfedale's most famous landmark.

Well-tended gardens lead down to a private mooring and boat houses. This property has the added attraction of a waterside summer house.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy & Willis had their branch, and where those who had signed the pledge could find a room at the Albany Temperance Hotel.

It was built in 1936, and is a popular stopping place for day-trippers to the Downs and the coastal resorts. It was usual to have a drink on the outward and homeward journeys.

The church was burned down in the blitz, but restoration started in 1949 and the church was finally reconsecrated in 1957.

Filey Bay runs down from the prominent coastal feature of Filey Brig which juts out into the North Sea.

Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.

This bustling view of Church Road with its bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles is dominated by the sadly- lamented old Town Hall, which burned down in 1966.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Note the blinds down on the shops on the right.

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Further down the street, Continental Motors is the local agent for Michelin.

Long-standing local residents do not remember the church tower without its pinnacles, although one pinnacle was struck by lightning and fell down in the early 1990s.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

The Old Greyhound Inn is still in business, and the cottages further down still look up the street towards the junction.

Frith's photographer takes us down into the crypt of Holy Trinity church, discovered by an 18th-century gravedigger when the aisle floor collapsed beneath him.