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At St Helen's Church the corbelled, pinnacled and crocketed tower stands out in more ways than one: it seems curiously at odds, in size and style, with the rest of the church.

In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

Above the village of Rockingham lies the splendid castle, built by William the Conqueror on the site of an ancient fortress and at the heart of the great Rockingham Forest.

The old hump-backed bridge carried the main road from Cardiff to Swansea over the River Thaw, which at this point is merely a stream meandering to the sea at Cardiff Bay.

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).

The zoo opened at the north end of Regent's Park in 1828, and two years later the Royal Menagerie was added, to be joined by the animals which had formerly been kept at the Tower of London.

At this time the Castle was being used as a Catholic preparatory school for boys.The original castle is thought to have been built by Bertram de Verdun, who also founded the Cistercian abbey at Croxden

The cross here is said to mark the place where St Dubricius was born at some time in the 5th century.

The road running beside Newlands Bottom is to the left of the valley at this date, unlike the present road, and is now a bridleway.

The boy in the foreground is looking through his telescope, possibly at passing shipping but more probably at Lundy Island.

Few traffic controls are in evidence at the southern end of the shopping area in about 1960.

The churchyard at Busbridge is full of memorials, including one to Gertrude Jekyll, the great gardener, who lived nearby at Munstead.

A large crowd has gathered in Newport Street, part of the Old Town of Swindon.

A Sussex legend recalls how St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, met with the Devil at Mayfield.

The DD registration tells us that the car chugging its way into town from the direction of Nailsworth was local, registered in Gloucestershire.

Frith's photographer moves on to Clapham Common; seeking human interest, he pauses at the Long Pond at the eastern end of the Common, looking from the opposite side to C327009 (pages 108 - 109).

A railway once crossed the road at the bottom of Berry Lane.

The partly Tudor Manor House is at the crossroads in the centre of the village, but at the east end is an equally fine house, Missenden House.

Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints' Church has dormer windows with carved bargeboards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.

A closer view of Henry II's keep at Peveril Castle.

A vessel passes close to Walton Locks and Warrington Wharf before negotiating the Chester Road Swing Bridge.

At this time restoration work was under way at Washington Old Hall, home of the ancestors of US president George Washington.

In 1823 the Chamber of Commerce were so concerned about the high cost of the port dues being demanded by the Bristol Dock Co that they inquired as to what charges would be levied at other ports for the

'Belaugh' means 'the dwelling-place at the water'.