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A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols. A little further along on the left is Cleopatra’s Needle.

Along with the substantial numbers of parked cars along the verges, a laden lorry and a coach are advancing down the High Street, representative of the immense numbers of similar heavy vehicles which

It was later burnt down, some say by a drunken Irishman who objected to the Duke's politics.

The main road leads down past Holy Trinity church, which was built in 1836. The scene is similar today but the road is very busy with motor traffic.

When the tower itself came down in about 1912, the tower building continued to be a centre for entertainment.

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.

Further down, near all the cars, is Frydays, a good fish and chip shop and restaurant.

B G Davies, 'Solicitor and Notary', have their offices on the corner, with the Cash Clothing Co and Newman's the chemist further down the road.

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

The mill ceased work in 1912, and was accidentally burnt down in 1921.

A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols.

Vagrants have wandered the fields and lanes of Britain down the centuries. Sunject to no laws, they were the truly free people of the world.

As we look north down St Barnabas Road, we see that the trees and houses look very new.

Frith's photographer looks south down the High Street from the Broadway.

The amusements are down on the beach, with the old museum ship on the right.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

Unlike many of its rivals, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire never sold out to the railway companies, some of whom made a policy of buying up canals, then running them down so that they could gradually

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century.

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday

Woodstock House is a country house hotel nestling in the Downs below the heights of Charlton Forest.We are near Goodwood racecourse, hence the racing scene on the hotel restaurant signboard.

The ashlar stone building with a Cotswold-tiled mansard roof, on the left, contrasts with the half-timbered White Hart Hotel down on the right and with the well-proportioned three-storey building situated

Behind Ken Pett's green post office van on the left of the picture, you can just see the remains of Norman Burton's shop which burnt down during the early hours of 6 January 1948.

while its four stoney local worthies, Simon de Montfort, William Wyggeston, Alderman Gabriel Newton and Sir Thomas White, Mayor of Leicester and mine host at the nearby Horse and Trumpet, gaze down