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This view is at the less interesting east end of Main Road, away from the parish church, the moat, the Georgian rectory and Shakespeare Farmhouse, where the bard is reputed to have stayed.

The River Windrush threads through Bourton, carpeted on either bank by broad greens.

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

From 1945, the number of people employed by the shipbuilding yards in Wallasey and Birkenhead declined and a number of associated industries closed.

The three huge water wheels drove the three pairs of grinding stones, and when the mill was working the steady rumble of the mill machinery would have been a familiar sound.

We are looking northwards across the common, where the shingle-clad spire of Christ Church dominates the skyline.

Straight ahead is the clock tower; this was a water tower supplying Warsash House, which King Edward VII used to visit when he was Prince of Wales.

The two small buildings on the right have been replaced. One was taken down, and apparently the other fell down! Now there is a spate of banks.

HRH Princess Marie Louise opened the park in April 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V - the plaque stating this information is on the side of the cafeteria.

This is the junction of George Street, Castle Street and Chapel Street - three titles that follow the 19th-century fashion for objective street names.

Here we are standing on the slipway where Ferry Lane disappears into the River Thames.

This view is from the Buckinghamshire bank, looking north from the A4 Bath Road immediately east of the bridge.

The photograph looks at the original village centre, with the Old House immediately behind the camera, and the parish pump out of shot to the right.

No-one could pretend that this scene is one of romantic beauty, but this long row of late 19th-century terraced houses with its excellent corner shop has a well mannered charm.

On the far side of the Severn, a boathouse and rowing boats indicate a swing to tourist trade.

Here we see the 13th-century Buddle Bridge (centre) and the buildings of Bridge Street which crossed it until demolitions for road widening in 1913.

This is the creeper-clad rear of the Hotel Alexandra, taken from its tennis lawn. The building faces the sea and the sun.

The Town Bridge was designed by James Clarke at a cost of £700. It is of a single span with stone dressings and balustrades.

A smartly dressed party, possibly celebrating a christening, assemble beneath a sign showing the landlord's name whilst in the background the name of Lee is shown on The Horseshoe.

On the right you can see the Nissen huts put up in the 1939-45 war for soldiers and the Home Guard, who were based here to keep supplies flowing during the war years.

The fine 15th-century tower with its Victorian pinnacles is built in local Wealden sandstone; its walls are the least renewed or refaced part of the church, whose three Victorian restorations

At the east side of the market place was the entrance to Abingdon Abbey.

Heawood Hall was a small gentry house in Nether Alderley, once the home of the Hollinsheds, a family that included the 16th-century chronicler who was Shakespeare`s source for many of his

The same scene viewed some 60 years earlier than photograph No A80019 (page 12-13) presents a neglected view of the stones. Fortunately, Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame!)