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In December 2000, it was estimated that 400,000 cubic metres of earth was slowly moving down the side of Leith Hill.

These were the days when blazers and boaters were de rigeur for a trip down the river to Eccleston.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

This is also the highest tidal point up to which shipping once came; but as this view shows, the quays and channel became silted by material washed down the river.

They weigh up to 40 tons each, and were brought from Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, about 20 miles away, from a surface quarry that can still be visited.

The area between the White Cross and the photographer is now occupied by Richmond Riverside, a splendid collection of 1980s Georgian-style office blocks by Quinlan Terry above a zig-zag of ramped terraces

In this view we look down Pearson Street, with the High Street off to the left beyond the cart.

In these, ladies changed into their swimwear and the whole contraption was pushed into the sea. The ladies then made their exit down a flight of steps to the rear, straight into the water.

Looking down the lane, towards Cannock Chase, note the railway bridge which carried the line between Colwich junction and Macclesfield.

We can see Pendle Hill and Black Hill in the background. Beside Sabden Brook stands the church of St Nicholas, built in 1846. A countryside of varied beauty accounts for the caravan site.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

Blinkhorn & Son is clearly to be seen on the left, and beyond that is Currys electrical store, which also sold cycles.

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

This narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine

It is quite remarkable to see the crowds of Londoners poured into Southend by steamboat and excursion train on a fine summer's day.

On the left a woman stands in the door of the Post Office, which in 1895 also acted as a money order and telegraph office. Just beyond a carpenter is at work.

The original font was rediscovered and replaced in the 19th century. Next to the church is the old manor house, with gardens running down to the river.

The Savoy Café is on the right, and further down hill across the road Mazda lamps are for sale close to the inn sign.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

A delivery boy rests with his bicycle between rounds on the right, while down the street a policeman looks out for traffic to direct.

At the height of the season, Peel harbour was often full of fishing boats - Manx, Cornish, Irish and Scottish - as they followed the migrating herring into Scottish waters.