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We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.

The wall on the right was knocked down and a garage built. This disappeared in 1997, replaced by a pretty park. The Post Office has gone, and the Westward Ho!

This view looks down towards the Cross from the A46 Bath Road. At the bottom of the slope is the clock tower and George Street, in which is found one of the largest kettles in the country.

We are looking east down the wide sweep of Swaledale, where we can reflect on the beauty of this, the quietest of the northern dales.

From this view it is obvious that the town occupies a ridge between the two rivers: the land drops to the Great Ouse (see the previous views) and to the Ouzel, as we see here - this view was

The building is of about 1300 with an unbuttressed west tower of 1707, when its spire was taken down. As

During World War II it and the distinctive iron railings were dismantled and stored, thus escaping being melted down for Spitfires, and reinstated in 1949.

The Town Hall is down Duke Street on the right.

The old town of Cliffe, destroyed by fire in 1520, was revived briefly by the cement industry in the second half of the 19th century.

Most of the shops on the right have awnings pulled down to protect their wares and produce from the sun.

The building seen in the photograph appears as an atmospheric drinkers' dream pub, with its low doorway stepping down into a dark panelled bar, with its inevitably yellowy-brown smoke-stained ceiling.

This view down Silver Street, widened here at the junction with Gold Street in the 1930s, looks towards Dalkieth Place.

The Village 1902 Here we look south down the main road into the village as it nears the estuary.

Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

The sign next to H A Furr's confectionery shop advises traffic for Bedford and Luton to use Tilehouse Street, while traffic for Baldock is directed down Sun Street.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

Now a crowded suburb of Folkestone, this once rural village on the heights of the Downs just behind Sandgate has been transformed by the construction and rail links accompanying the building of

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

This unusual view of the harbour looks down on the moored boats, and offers insight into their rarely-seen deck gear.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

A vintage tram makes its way down Clifton Drive to Lytham St Anne's. Before the sand dunes were levelled, sand blown on the tram tracks caused trouble.

To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

A range of three 16th-century thatched cottages in banded flint and Hamstone is down to the right.