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During the Second World War, the fighter pilots based at Biggin Hill used to congregate at the Victorian White Hart pub further down the street.

This is taken further down the same road as 48369. The Swan Inn advertises 'Good Accommodation for Cyclists', and another sign offers 'Horse and Trap or Wagonette for Hire'.

It is home to the Tal-y-Llyn Railway, which opened in 1865, making it the oldest narrow-gauge railway in Wales; it brought slate down from the Abergynolwyn quarries.

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.

Trees behind the Albert Clock have been cut down to improve visibility, revealing the Imperial Hotel in the process.

The boat was then drawn down to the beach by horses and launched from the beach.

After this, the Pier soon fell into decay, and was later pulled down.

Further down the lane we can see another house, also timbered - it was built in 1480.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

Further down, the river forms a pond and falls over a weir flowing to join the River Eamont. The combined waters then enter the River Eden.

The area on the left burned down in 1883, and the buildings post-date that; they include the former Free Library built in 1895, the building with the tall oriel bay windows.

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

Further down the street we can just see the sign for the Fishes public house.

These were horse-drawn; but instead of using locks, the tub boats were hauled up and down inclined planes by engine to reach the different water levels.

This photograph, taken from the tower of the Town Hall, looks down past the formal square to the buildings of Bishop Street, which include the reference library by Edward Burgess of 1904 and the former

The Working Men's Club is now at The Lodge, Welton Road, just out of sight to the left down Abbey Street.

But then, Essex people were not known for going down without a fight.

Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

This long straggling village, in the centre of the old tin mining district, sits on a steep hill running down to the Tamar. We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill.

High Salvington, a hamlet on the downs, is now swallowed up, as is the Findon Valley below to the east; in effect it is a suburb cut off by the teeming A27.

A Ship Canal Pleasure Steamer Company was formed, and weekends and Bank Holidays would see two or three of these paddle steamers taking passengers on sight-seeing trips up and down the canal.

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.