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Again, the flint walls remain, and the brick pavings on the right survive, but the pillar box on the corner of Blackwater Road has been replaced by a modern one.

The clock tower, erected in 1902 in memory of George the son of Potto Brown, still provides shelter for visitors on their way to visit the famous mill or using the Ouse Valley Way.

This ornate fountain was erected in 1912 and cost £180; it was the subject of much public debate.

Plenty of nostalgia here! A single-decker United bus allows passengers to disembark, having travelled all the way from Osmotherley.

The Rutland Arms Hotel, designed by John Kent, was built in 1815 on the site of the Ram Inn. The side against the High Street has the Duke's coat of arms in the pediment.

This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards.

In 1886 Mevagissey landed 255,000 hundredweight of fish, the greatest quantity of any port in the west. The twin harbours offered vessels safe protection from storms.

A few miles south of Truro, Feock is picturesquely situated at the junction of the Carrick Roads with Restronguet Creek. Its Victorian church, St Feoca, has a detached tower.

A superb view looking up the Western Cleddau into Haverfordwest with the Castle in the centre and the tower of St Thomas à Becket on the hill overlooking it.

When local landowner Colonel Tomline promoted a railway and a new dock in Felixstowe, he hoped to be able to compete with the port of Harwich, across the Orwell Estuary.

The narrowing of the river at this point shows clearly why the bridge was built here.

The White Bull pub (right) is still in existence, but many of the other buildings have gone, and so have the telegraph posts and school sign (left).

The new ground floor shopfront of Plumpton's is on the left, followed by three shop signs on Oliver's, Burdon's and Thurlow Champness.

The War Office purchased over 1600 acres of land here in 1863, and by 1903 camps had been construct- ed for troops returning from the Boer War.

The port had kept abreast of technology: massive cranes on tracks have appeared, which could lift an entire coal wagon and dump it into the ship's hold.

Unfortunately, it collapsed in 1976 with the weight of snow .

At the beginning of the last millennium, marauding Danes landed on these sandy beaches and put the village of Exmouth to fire and sword.

A bustling street scene at the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road.We think of advertising as a modern phenomenon.

In 1999 Weobley was named the 'National Village of the Year' and, in order to celebrate both this and the Millennium that followed, a sculpture was erected in the garden area in the foreground of this

Henry I gave the village and living of Burton Bradstock to the great Normandy abbey at Caen in exchange for the royal regalia of William the Conqueror, which the monks claimed had been gifted to them by

The long main street of the town gives a feeling that this was a community grown up around a great highway.

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

Judging by the quantity of lines carried on the telegraph poles, it would appear that a number of telephones had been installed in the area.

Today with a reduced pond and an enlarged green, there exists an excellent cricket pitch, all of which remains in full view of the much larger pub and restaurant now named 'Le Toad and Stumps