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Sea scouts share in this idle scene outside the local public house on a sunny day half a century ago. The New Inn has been the focus of community life in Shalfleet since Victorian times.

This old tower windmill is on Old Windmill Hill between Blackdown Barracks and Elizabeth Barracks in Deepcut and Pirbright Camps.

A good selection of early Edwardian costume can be seen in this well-wooded avenue. New trees have been planted between their older cousins, and a gas lamp struggles to be seen on the right.

The coastal scenery around Bexhill may not be the most spectacular along the southern coast of England, but it does offer many pleasant walks - beneficial to those who come to the area for

A busy scene of Bangor, showing the piers and sailing boats. In addition to the pedestrians, the main traffic is typical Irish jaunting cars and wagons. A solitary lady can be seen on her bike.

An extraordinary view: for instead of the great chateau by the French architect, Destailleur, Frith's photographer chose to photograph the lake down by the home farm whose granary can be see out on the

East Mill stood on the north side of East Road and was powered by the River Asker.

The farmstead of High Stile is still in the same business a thousand years later.

After the Second World War, old cars came back on the road and new production increased. The edge of the river was soon marked out for free parking. Note the hut spanning the mill race.

Port Soderick was developed in the 1890s by the Forrester family, and was one of the first attractions created for the tourist industry.

Some early tourists would hire villas and bring their entire family and retinue of servants with them.

On the right are the offices of the Hampshire Advertiser, and in the distance is the old Guildhall from where a curfew bell is rung every evening at 8.00.

In 1322, the Earl of Lancaster sought refuge in the local church following his defeat by Edward II.

A building has architectural pretensions on the right, in front of which the gas lamp post, with leaning boys, appears to be standing in the gutter and not on the pavement.

Three young ladies, together with their doll's pram, sit in front of a statue which still adorns the People's Park.

This glorious piece of architecture almost seems wasted on a school chapel. The pupils treat it with due reverence, and Old Blundellians remember it with affection.

Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.

Lines of hotels along the sea front testify to Sandown's continued popularity through the 20th century.

In 1905, Haymarket was turned into a grassed square, and standing in it was a statue of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th-century religious thinker who lived nearby. It is sad that the grass has now gone.

Nonetheless, it was still possible to take holidays there, as this picture of the famous sands goes to show.

These follow the patterns of old burgage strips, and on market days, sheep were driven in single file along the narrow ways to be counted.

Notice the lack of crash helmets on the two motor cyclists.

The white building in the centre background was demolished, and a large block of drab-looking flats replaced the trees on the left.

At the north end is Edwards College, built in Tudor-Gothic style as a home for clergy widows, founded by the will of Anne Edwards in 1834.