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It looks peaceful enough, but it is just two miles from the coast, and down by the dunes the sea blows unrelentingly.

Unfortunately, this lovely old building was pulled down and cleared away as recently as the 1930s.

The Long Man of Wilmington stands on the northern slope of the South Downs, today marked out in white bricks. Who he is and when he was originally cut into the downland turf is not known.

The road system has changed: today there is a one-way system where cars travel down the High Street towards Beaulieu, Southampton, Brockenhurst and Christchurch.

This view of the 1935 Silver Jubilee seat is taken from outside the King's Head on the A12, looking down the High Street.

In 1741 the mill was blown down in a storm killing a man and a boy - perhaps because the sails were 'back winded'. The mill has been in the care of the Cambridgeshire Preservation Trust since 1932.

The Kentish miners earned themselves a reputation for being among the most militant members of their arduous profession, before the local branch of the industry was shut down in the 1970s.

Beyond the lock gates the Thames will carry the boats down to Laleham and Chertsey.

Long queues of traffic build up here as cars approach the traffic lights at the junction further down the road, roughly at the point where the cart can be seen on the right.

At this time, local industry was closing down; Bacup, which was off the beaten track, was looking for residents to commute to work in Burnley, Manchester or other towns.The town stands on the young

The Epsom Downs railway line was opened in 1865, and branched south from Sutton station to its first stop, which was Belmont.

It was the second Anglican church in the town and is situated high on the moor side of town.

North-west from Kingsbury we go down Buckingham Street, passing the Wesleyan Church, now Aylesbury Methodist Church.

Between Seaford and Eastbourne the South Downs reach the sea in spectacular style with chalk cliffs rising sheer over 500 feet from the sea.

However, the sands gradually began to engulf the station, and it was closed down in 1919.

Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

To most people, it means Stonehenge and Salisbury, or somewhere that appears on a sign as travellers rush up and down the M4 motorway, heedless of what is around them.

There was also a blacksmith down the road where there could be horses being shod, and there are no TV aerials. The village water was still probably obtained from the roadside tap on the left.

The village store is on the right halfway down the road.The scene is similar today.

There are remnants of medieval buildings in the town. For most of its history, though, it has had a quiet time, as we might guess from this photograph.

It was originally a 14th-century timber- framed house, the home of the Pakingtons, an old Roman Catholic family; there were once five avenues approaching it, but they were cut down before 1800.

The 'new' Railway Inn opened along Birkenhead Road on 1 December 1938, allowing the old inn to be pulled down and the site turned into a car park.

This photograph was taken at a time when Solva's harbour was reaching the end of its time as a working harbour - the quay with its array of small boats looks somewhat run down.

She recalled Pudding Pie Nook, thatched cottages knocked down and replaced by bungalows. In 1910 Mr Tod Hull was the oldest resident.