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It was built on the site of Mother Downes' charming thatched cottage in 1870 and was much enlarged ­twenty years later.

The cows are lying down, a sure sign of rain, the old saying goes, but whether this is true or false they add a picturesque finishing touch to a watery scene.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

Here we see the brick tower mill, with a replacement roof in place of a cap, in a stripped-down and derelict condition. The photograph was taken from a nearby watermill site.

The new Britannia Pier opened in 1901 with a temporary pavilion, which was pulled down to make way for a permanent pavilion a year later. It fell victim to fire in 1909, though it was replaced.

The butcher's shop is interesting in that it is open on two sides; the butcher either cuts his meat in the street, or he has brought the block out to swill it down.

In direct contrast to the Pavilion by James Tate in Abbey Park, here is a brick and render symmetrical watered-down vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the Council of the early 1960s in

Architecturally it also descends from the heights of the High Street, except for the timber-framed building on the left half way down.

The Town Hall, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, was started in 1862. It burnt down in 1947, and after much debate, the ruins were cleared away in the early 1960s.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal

This little village stands on the edge of a cove in the chalk cliffs of South Foreland, where the road drops steeply down to St Margaret's Bay; it clusters around an impressive Norman church, built around

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar

This hamlet down in the East Looe river valley a mile from Liskeard was once a small centre of industry.

This is at the end of the village, where a track leads down to a passenger ferry across the Gannel to the Pentire district of Newquay.

Here the photographer looks down the alley from Market Square to the entrance bay; the oriel window was added by George Devey for the Rothschilds in the 1870s.

A few miles from Dunstable, through the Downs, and nowadays part of the commuter belt, Castle Hill road links the three ends of Totternhoe, Church, Middle and Lower.

Like Lewes, Arundel was established by a Norman baron, this time Roger de Montgomery, to guard a river gap in the South Downs, in this case the Arun.

The Roman bridge can be found down a footpath near the post office, and Fairy Bridge is north of the Red Pump Inn.

The mill was owned by the Elmer family until 1953, when it ceased working. In 1963 it was blown down in high winds, only hours before it was to be dismantled to repair Holton mill.

While West Clandon with its railway station definitely has the air of a commuter village, East Clandon, facing the slope of the North Downs and surrounded by fields, still has a rural feel

In 1964 it was discovered that the foundations were defective and a complete re- building, with foundations taken down to solid chalk, was implemented.

Next to the Trustee Savings Bank is an alley, down which I used to go to school. It led into Obelisk Street. Tolley, the first shop, used to produce their own soft drinks on the premises.

insists that it owes its name to an unlikely incident after the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, when Charles I is said to have come here and demanded that the local gentry donate silverware to be melted down