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Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this view, which looks towards the 2,403 ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

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.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

It eventually burnt down in a spectacular blaze on 16 May 1985 which took 11 fire crews to extinguish. The site is now occupied by flats, built in 1988.

right, has lost its top storey and the houses at the foot of the hill have been replaced - but none the less this is clearly School Hill, although the modern traffic system does not allow you to motor down

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

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

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.

The driver of the Triumph Herald 1200 patiently waits, with his window wound down, for his wife to post a letter and buy a newspaper.

The hill leads from the Bear Hotel down to the A46 and on to North Woodchester, visible in the distance.

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

The first large property on the left is The Towers, and in front of it is the path leading down to the harbour and Jackson's Bay.

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

Again it could have been pulled down, but it was saved and rebuilt to the original design in concrete.

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.

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

High Street c1960 On the left is the Town Hall with its unu- sual lead-sheathed clock turret.

The Cotswold rivers of Coln and Leach join the Thames here, and the town is much influenced by them.

The Bear Hotel was a much-visited restaurant in the 1960s and 70s, but it became rather run-down and lost most of its clientele. It has re-opened following renovation and cleaning.

On the left edge is the Royal Norfolk Hotel, rebuilt here in 1826 after the earlier one burnt down.

On the corner, behind the now vanished telephone box, are the premises of A & W Riches & Son, an ironmonger's, and further down is the shop of V Carter & Sons.

But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

Gallowtree Gate runs out of Granby Street and London Road as it drops down to the Clock Tower.

The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.