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Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft. Because of the width of the river, vessels were launched sideways.

On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House. The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

The camera is looking along Church Street, which curves away uphill to the village square of Ticehurst, another Wealden iron-making village.

On the right is the Wesleyan Chapel. John Wesley visited Newark on six occasions between 1743 and 1788.

Each of the pillars in the main hall are from a single oak tree donated by the county families of Yorkshire.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.The

To the west of Farley Heath and Blackheath, the hamlet of Blackheath grew up in Victorian times.

A little further on is the Plough, which we can see on the right behind the telephone kiosk (which is still there).

View C180008 was taken in front of the village hall. It is dated 1935, and is a large timber-framed building of some quality, convincingly done.

Sir John fought at Harfleur in 1415 during Henry V's invasion of France. His second wife was the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

Here we see two extremes of worship - the cathedral in the distance, and the more modest St Mary-on- the Bridge.

The statue of John Bright MP stands in front of Charles Kershaw`s Central Corn Mill.

The elegant 75-foot spire of Christ Church is prominent in the landscape; the old ironworks and spoil tips are behind it. The terraces of Newtown are to the right.

There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.

Sited on a Bronze Age tumulus, the Beacon was built in Elizabethan times and was used at the time of the Armada to warn of the Spanish threat.

To the south of the village, brick making has been an important local industry.

Referred to locally as the `new bridge`, it was opened by Prince Charles the Prince of Wales on 5 June 1996; it was built by a Franco-British consortium.

At an elevation of 747ft, Penistone always suffers with the weather, particularly in the ferocious winters of 1933, 1947 and 1963.

The headquarters of Somerset County Cricket Club, founded in 1875, lie on the south bank of the River Tone; although the grandstands are much changed, the arched one still in essence survives.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

The original unveiling date in May 1926 had to be postponed because of the General Strike. There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park.

One mile inland is the church of St Mary, which includes the nave of the Augustinian priory founded here in 1119 by Walter de Gant.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.