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The building on the right jutting into Windy Street is John Brabin's school. He was a great benefactor; his home was on Chipping's main street at what is now the post office.

On Cove Lane there was an ancient chapel. The lane also led to Jenny Brown's Point, where an old lady of that name lived in the 18th century.

Owing to an unfortunate one-way traffic system foisted on the town since this photograph was taken, Dursley's Market House and Town Hall is now isolated on a roundabout.

We are looking inland north-eastwards from what is now National Trust land above Burton Cliff, over the Dove Inn and Southover (foreground) to the meadows of the River Bride (centre).

Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.

For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.

Each of these photographs takes the eye closer to the village centre with the railway now in clear view.

The exporting of coal has ceased by this date, and the loading gear and coal trolleys are long gone.

The fortified manor of the Wynn family, built at various stages from around 1490, is seen with carefully tended beds and wisteria and ivy-clad walls.

Much of this scene had not changed since before the war. The post office (near right) was run by F S Mowlam in the 1950s. Further on we see the gabled end of the White Hart Hotel.

At one time Bardsea was part of Lancashire, and could only be reached by boat or by a dangerous route over the shifting sands of Morecombe Bay.

People sit and watch life go by under the hexagonal arches of the Poultry Cross. For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.

The Common dates back to medieval times. It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

The shore line at Heysham is owned by Queen Elizabeth II. The concrete sea defence to Morecambe has been constructed, and provides a sort of primitive promenade.

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

And here we see the ferry whose sign 'To Ferry' is shown in image number E17003.

Roath Park was laid out in 1894 at a cost of £62,000 - a considerable sum in those days. The land, 132 acres, was presented to the city by Lord Bute.

A 1930s Rover saloon is parked on the road. A trout stream flows through the water meadow here.

The 'Hotspur III' was launched at the end of January 1938. It joined 'Hotspur I' and 'Hotspur II' running from Southampton to Hythe every half an hour during the day.

One of the finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle traces its history back to the Iron Age earthworks on the site.

The unique oast houses are basically kilns, or ovens, where the piles of hops were dried on sacking laid over wooden slats, and heated by fires of anthracite mixed with sulphur.

On the left are the boundary walls of the Hospital of God at Greatham, founded in 1273 – this was not a hospital in the modern sense, but accommodation for the elderly and the poor, the earliest present

The Church Square at Ampthill, including the almshouses, is part of the second largest Conservation Area in Bedfordshire.