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The Unicorn Hotel has long disappeared, but the timber building with the gable ends is still here - it is now a wine merchants, and parts of the shop have hardly changed with time.

The blurred images of the children in the foreground remind us of the long exposure times photographers needed in those days.

A rustic corner, with mossy thatch and a corrugated-iron porch lid, lies beside Loves Lane on the western slope of Hardown Hill.

A mill was recorded on this site in the Domesday survey of 1086, and underneath the buildings shown in this photograph are the footings of an earlier water-driven construction.

In 1782 the man-o-war 'Royal George' heeled over just offshore on a calm day.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

'It is fitting that Balliol, the most progressive of our colleges, should have so large a proportion of its buildings modern', wrote Dr Wells in 1897.

This early Edwardian dusty street scene reminds me of a cowboy film! Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849.

This rural scene of blossom trees is mostly a forgotten sight here today. The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments.

It remains a thriving thoroughfare of small shops that cater for the locals' needs to this day. On the right of the picture, behind the railings, are the town's stocks.

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

A demure young Edwardian girl stands by the roadside by the Rose and Crown Tea Gardens in this hamlet on the steep Riddlesdown above Kenley.

An open-topped double-decker bus rumbles up the High Street on its way to Epsom and Redhill, with the conductor collecting fares from the passengers.

This view, taken in the direction of Stonehouse, shows some high street names that are still in business today. Stead and Simpson's and Oliver's now sell their shoes in New George Street.

Near to the village are the extensive grounds of Brockenhurst Park, the home of the Morant family until well into the last century.

In the churchyard lies George Ashton Taylor, a former pupil of the Academy, who died aged nineteen. Dickens used the unfortunate Master Taylor as the basis for the character of Smike.

Whickam is not noted for much save that it was the birthplace in 1748 of William Shield, musician and composer, who rose to become the Master of the King's Music.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

There is enough of old Hailsham surviving to make a visit worthwhile, but it has to be admitted that this part of the High Street has suffered greatly.

The rugged nature and scale of the cliffs at Beachy Head, seen here to the east of the lighthouse, is clearly shown in this view.

The place was a notorious smuggling centre; the tile-hung house on the left is Ye Olde Smugglers Inne, in the 18th century the house of Stanton Collins, one of Alfriston's leading smugglers.

A minimal circular fountain typical of the 1930s is Uren's only gesture to forecourt landscaping.

As a relatively new town, Bournemouth was able to develop as a holiday resort unencumbered by the street pattern and buildings of an older settlement; its main purpose has always been to cater for thousands

Founded by Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort (as was St John's), the impressive gateway depicts her coat of arms, with a statue of her above.