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Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right.

Bickleigh lies between Shaugh Bridge and Plymbridge in the valley of the Plym.

The High Street runs along the east side of the market place.

Mount Pleasant Inn still stands above the marshlands of Dawlish Warren, though it has changed somewhat since this photograph was taken.

The most famous Shambles is in York but many towns had their shambles or meat market at one time.

Constructed in 1826, and with a single arched span of a hundred and seventy six feet, it was considered an engineering marvel at the time of its completion.

Nestling at the foor of St Andrew Street, they were demolished after the last war when slum clearance was the watchword. Modernisation was embraced, and down everything came.

This was once an important stopping place on the main road from Taunton to the north Devon area; now, a new road further south has removed much of the traffic from this place.

Until the beginning of the 19th century the only crossing of the Hamble was by ferry.

The upper floors of the buildings on the right have hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

The Victorian poet Horace Smith wrote these lines on leaving the village: 'Farewell, sweet Binstead!

Main Street c1955 Victorian visitors had a number of inns to choose from when seeking sustenance in the town, some acting as fully-fledged hotels.

Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed.

Little of the Roman town or medieval city remains, as Chichester was almost entirely rebuilt by the end of the 18th century.

The Swan, near the river in Lower Fittleworth and recorded in a document dated 1640, is possibly one of the two alehouses mentioned earlier in 1536.

Queen Elizabeth II visited this town in 1953 to offer her condolences to the hundreds of residents whose lives had been torn apart by a monstrous flood that wrecked homes and businesses.

More road signs and traffic markings have since been installed along this stretch of the village.

A whole row of hop vines have been pulled to the ground ready for the nimble fingers of these workers to detach the hops and bundle them into bushels ready for transportation to local breweries.

In the 1920s, when the Lickeys were at the height of their popularity, several tea rooms were in business, and this one was still going strong in the 1950s.

For a short time in the middle of the 19th century, copper was mined in Dry Cove above Tilberthwaite.

Before chain stores dominated Britain's high streets, shoppers could choose from a variety of family traders, as this 1950s street scene illustrates.

Ormesby was once an important market town whose inhabitants were privileged to be exempt from county service, and from contributing funds towards the maintenance of the Shire Knights.

This shows the raised riverbank as a place of recreation, with seats, shelters and a bandstand. A barge makes towards the dock, passing the coal jetty on the left.