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His father was the vicar here and Dodgeson was born in the nearby vicarage, which has since burnt down.

Facing down the street (centre) is the Corner Café, now an optician's shop, whilst the café on the left is now an Indian restaurant.

This infamous headland, at 536ft the highest cliff on the south coast, marks the point where the South Downs plunge into the English Channel.

Can you see the sign of the Noel Arms further down on the left, and the Wheatsheaf on the right? Dulcie Ellingworth was headmistress here.

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

The awnings are down over the windows; it is a hot, sunny day.

Situated under the downs, very close to the Long Man, the former manorial grange at Wilmington had, by the 13th century, developed into a small priory.

Rhos-on-Sea was the poorer cousin to nearby Colwyn Bay, yet it still manages an identity of its own.

These views (below and pages 40-41) up and down Church Street would have been familiar to Dylan Thomas, who lived near New Quay in 1944, and to many visitors, who have to park their cars at the top of

Watford Way, running down to the North Circular Road from the M1 motorway, looks definitely under-used in 1960.

Frith's intrepid photographer sought a high vantage point at Boots Corner for this view down Buttermarket Street.

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

We can see the First and Last House down by the Land's End, while in the far distance is the headland of Cape Cornwall.

The 121 acres of Farthing Down have in recent years seen the introduction of a small herd of cattle to graze the coarser grasses.

Looking towards the Castle at the end of the street, note the agricultural implements on sale on the left, the Lion Hotel further down the street, and on the right-hand side the arched

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

This was indeed once the place where paupers and those down on their luck could seek food and a roof over their head.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

Down river, the village now runs past the house with the quay all the way to the next point, on which stands the Yealm Hotel.

However, this was pulled down in the 1980s as part of an ultimately unsuccessful marina project.

This revealing glimpse looks down Market Street towards the High Street.

It tapped the water from the Burgess Well (now under Fairfield Road car park) and released it in an open channel down the High Street.