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The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

This photograph gives us the opportunity to look down the street and into Hargreaves Street, where the GPO stands (54191, page 46).

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

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

The photograph shows an area to the south of the original village as it drops down towards Tally Ho Corner, but just a little to the north, among the modern shops, are 18th-century houses and a fine 16th-century

A delivery boy rests with his bicycle between rounds on the right, while down the street a policeman looks out for traffic to direct.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

This view down into Flint is noteworthy for a number of reasons. We can see the heavy industrial scene, the chimney stacks and the Courtaulds building in the distance (left).

Near to this bridge in 1860, a fight took place that has gone down in the history of boxing as one of the important fights of the century.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

A favourite walk is down the valley between the rivers Calder and Ribble. The climb to the pass of Nick o' Pendle is another favourite.

The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

Looking down Market Street towards St Mary's with the spire of St Martin's just visible beyond.

There is just space to bring a few open fishing boats between the rocks to a slipway at this little cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head.

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street. The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

Pairs of 1930s semis seem to march down the hill, the view made more bleak by the brutal municipal pruning of the silver birch trees - they are now no more substantial than the street lamp or the telephone

A picture taken eight years later than No 35060A, and lower down the High Street towards the river.

In the 19th century, fungus started to attack the elm and ash trees, and in August 1891 an ancient mulberry tree planted by monks from Blackfriars Monastery blew down.