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In this picture things have quietened down a little, and the policeman on point duty has only one waggon and several horse-trams and horse-drawn omnibuses to dodge.

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. The Tiger Inn is a fine building that was a barracks during the Napoleonic wars.

Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'little Venice', with soft green lawns spreading down to the water's edge.

It was here that woollen fairs and cattle markets were held, until the square became too developed; then the fairs moved down to Castlefields.

During the Civil War, he burnt the house down for fear that it might fall into Parliamentarian hands.

But the main auditorium was not pulled down for another thirty years, when the whole site was redeveloped.

Looking down the High Street we can see Fosters Brothers (centre right) in a new building that replaced the Bear Hotel, one of Daventry's coaching inns.

The scaffolding is there because the rest of the building has just been pulled down.

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.

St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.

The medieval church and Albury Park are to the east and north of the stream, and are now on the North Downs Way long-distance footpath.

This view was taken just south of the crossroads, looking down the High Street; the two pubs on the right are the Jolly Farmers and the Wheatsheaf.

Looking down Ropergate towards the Market Place, on the left we see the old Crescent Cinema (1926-1993), one of five picture palaces once in the town.

Here a Royal Air Force coastal radar station slipped down the cliffs on 14 May 1942. Its concrete and brick remains are entombed in the undercliff.

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

Yet another clothier's church, St Mary's at Steeple Ashton had a steeple, as the village name implies, but it was blown down in 1670. Stone vaulting in the nave has been replaced with wood.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

It rises on the border with Yorkshire, and tumbles down the hillsides to meet up with the River Hodder and the River Calder to gather strength before pushing on to Preston and the coast.

Another fair was held on Bank Holiday Monday, and one elderly lady remembered collecting discarded ginger beer bottles to exchange for the refund of one penny after the fair had closed down for the day

The organ tuner's candle fell down inside the mechanism while he was tuning the organ!

It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens. It was once a strategic seaport, where coasters transhipped their cargoes into fenland lighters.

These cumbersome devices were backed into the sea by horses, and the incumbent then disembarked down steps at the rear, protected from cold winds and inquisitive stares by a collapsible umbrella

The furniture legacy from this period can be found mainly in the western part of town: many are relatively small two-storey structures up to 100 feet long, and date mostly from the first two decades

The market stalls include an ice cream salesman (centre foreground) immediately in front of the steps leading down to the ladies' convenience!