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This firm of builders and contractors had the memorable telephone number East Grinstead 2.

Boats travelled upriver to Stourport (the northern limit of navigation) or downriver as far as Tewkesbury.

The Stockwell Streets are the heart of what is known as the Dutch Quarter, a recent name for the area in which Flemish weavers settled around 1600.

The Esplanade has been landscaped, with grassy greens, paved walkways, plenty of seating, and leisure amenities. New houses have also been erected nearby.

Temple Square was probably a principal crossroads in the 10th-century Anglo-Sacon burh, with Kingsbury the market place at the south-east corner of the early town.

The Simmonds fleet of buses would often work their way up and down Southgate Street.

The trip along the four-mile minor road over the Gap is spectacular, with the road crossing and re-crossing the river at the bottom of the ravine.

Pickering Castle lies to the north of the town and was founded by William the Conqueror, though the earliest ruins date from the 12th century.

Old Sarum, an Iron Age fort, a junction for four Roman roads, a cathedral town and the original Salisbury, reveals its past with this display of excavated artefacts.

The cottages were built between 1870 and 1872 under the direction of Sir John Guest's wife Charlotte, who was responsible for the many familiar estate cottages now to be found scattered across Poole.

Originally, of course, like the Norman St Alban's Abbey, the walls were plastered or rendered and limewashed, then painted to mimic fine stonework blocks.

These are the local breed, Hereford cattle, distinguishable by their white faces and the ridge of white extending along their backs.

Many of the cottages have survived, retaining their original charm.

The large hire-boat companies have taken over many of the small boat-building firms, and Easticks has now become Hoseasons. These sheds burnt down in about 1996.

One large window also replaces the two to the right of the main entrance.

The most striking difference between this and the previous picture is the widening of the Promenade.

This photograph, taken 15 years after B258003 (p20-21), shows the new shop masthead on Boots. The range to the right of the Post Office has been rebuilt as Lipton House.

Yards or passages lead to many of the houses; they seem to have been put wherever they would fit, a little like a wrongly-completed jigsaw. This gives the village a unique charm.

The fishermen are standing on 'Little Pier'. We are looking upstream at half tide towards West Looe on the far side of the harbour.

This ancient borough and market town is most famous for its fine-grained granite, which was used in the construction of Waterloo Bridge.

The air traffic control centre is housed in a building which rather resembles an old war-time nissen hut; to the right of it is the quaintly-named emergency services rendezvous point.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

The harbour was at that time still the preserve of local fishermen, but today the area is monopolised by pleasure craft and luxury yachts.

It was partly demolished by a large flood on 21 August 1775. Two of the small arches were replaced with one large one, which explains why the bridge is not symmetrical.