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Yet another vanished Surrey watermill, testimony to a virtually forgotten source of power. This mill stood on the Pippbroook, a tributary of the Mole, but has now been demolished.

There is one motor launch in the foreground and another on the right of the picture.

Arlington Mill served the locality as both a corn and cloth mill and has most recently been a countryside museum, with an excellent display about the life and works of William Morris.

It could be a Pierrot troupe, or even a minstrel show; both of these were popular acts at the time.

Both had been employed by the local magnates, the Lowther family, to manage their lands. This corner of Cumbria abounds in associations with the poet.

The hanging sign on the extreme left is that of the Stand Up Inn, whilst further along on the opposite side of the road is another pub, the Red Lion, which was originally a well used coaching

Another fine period piece, with onlookers watching the Frith photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the

This is another of Tintern`s hotels, pictured not long after it had been transformed from the Carpenter`s Arms. Note the decorative brickwork and the many chimneys.

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Another view from Castle Hill, this time looking west. In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

Because the River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, races called 'Bumps' are held.

Speedwell Cavern, at the foot of the Winnats Pass, is another of Castleton's famous show caves.

Here we see another restful feature in the Valley Gardens, but this is a later design. The area was originally a croquet lawn, established in 1864.

The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

Because the River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, races called 'Bumps' are held.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

Note the telegraph poles on the left, once a regular sight alongside canals.

Netley, on the east bank of Southampton Water, was another of Henry VIII's coastal forts, though this one was a conversion of an existing building, the gatehouse of Netley Abbey.

Another view of the mountain taken from across the valley with a very small man-made reservoir in the immediate foreground.

Raglan was not divided into wards but into two courts, the Stone and the Fountain.

Harcombe runs roughly parallel to Yawl; it is another long combe running north from the main valley of the River Lim.

This is another view that still looks much the same a century on. The delightful pub on the right is now a newsagents, and mr Acland's business is no more.

The filling station still exists, and there is another one opposite. The road layout has been radically improved.