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Gone are the sailing vessels, and in their place are the fishing smacks of the town.

This small town is unusual in that its name derives totally from French. 'Mal pas' means 'bad step or way' or 'difficult passage'.

The church on the right is St Peter's - the town church.The tower was completed in 1758.

During the 19th century Stafford's borough council was desperately seeking new fresh water supplies for the town.

The black and white signpost in the foreground will bring back nostalgic memories for some of motoring as it was half a century ago.

This would make sense, as in those days such a hospital would need to have been some short distance from the community it served, and this site would have then been well outside the town.

W H Smith (right) has gone, and since 1994 the shop has been owned by an antiques dealer. The van (left) is coming out of Stanhope Avenue.

The Cobbold brewing family bought the building and then presented it to the town, thus enabling us to continue to enjoy this monument to gracious living.

About twenty-five miles downstream from its source we reach the stone-built town of Lechlade on the Gloucestershire bank of the Thames. The Ha'penny Bridge was built in 1792 to replace a ferry.

In the centre, partially hidden by trees, is the Northumberland Hall, built in 1826 by the third Duke to provide the town with an assembly rooms.

South Street has been less spoiled than other streets in Dorking, and many of its old buildings remain.

As early as 1810 the town had been left a substantial amount of money (£20,000) towards an institution for the blind.

The town is said to be Devon's oldest resort. The commercial port was, and is, to the left of the picture where vessels of the era appear.

Ten years and one world war later, time seems to have stood still in the town. We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.

The Victorian Town Hall in the centre of the Market Place was built by the Watts-Russell family; today it is occupied by local businesses.

Its railway and pier, both now gone, prompted ambitious plans to transform the town into a major seaside resort similar in size to Brighton or Bournemouth, but the scheme failed to make the grade.

They halted on the banks of the Exe in about 50AD and founded the town of Isca. The West Country see was transferred to the safety of the Exeter city walls in 1049.

Today the view is quiet and smoke-free, but this was not always the case; Llanelli was once the tin plate capital of the world.

In 1933 a house clearance and house building scheme was developed at Broadwaters.

At first this view looks typical of many streets in small towns all over the country; and yet just behind the buildings on the left is Alsager Mere, which is most attractive.

Beoley predates Redditch, but it remains a small village on the northern edge of the present New Town.

Its appearance was much the same in a town guide of 1961, when it was advertised as having central heating with fires in all rooms.

Until the 1960s, most people relied on public transport, and the green-liveried buses of United Counties carried workers and shoppers in and out of town on busy timetables.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.