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Occupying a hill-top, Preesall grew as a small market around a corn mill and two pubs, both of which are shown here, the Black Bull and the Saracen's Head.

Beside the memorial to the dead of two world wars is a statue to another of Colne's brave sons, Wallace Hartley.

The top of the tower of this 13th-century church is five hundred feet above sea level, and was used as a lookout point in both world wars. An earlier medieval tower was destroyed in a storm in 1637.

On the extreme right of the picture is the war memorial, recalling the men of Higham Ferrers who died in both World Wars, and to the left of it, partly screened by trees, is the 13th-century Market Cross

This pier was called the Promenade Pier to distinguish it from the Admiralty and Prince of Wales piers, which were both primarily used by steamers and trains.

They appear to have been early exponents of the corporate image, both in the style of lettering used on their signs and in the way their premises were fitted out.

On the left is the Electra Cinema which occupied the ground floor of the defunct Market Hall.

Another view shows what a high quality design the subscribers got from their architects, Arthur McKewan and G H V Cole, using a sort of Baroque-cum-Wren style. It cost £6,000.

To the east of Stane Street, and four miles north of Billingshurst, is the village of Slinfold.

It actually served another purpose too, providing ventilation for warehouses that lay beneath the square.

The Kingsley Hotel (right), named after Charles Kingsley who often came to Whitchurch and was inspired to write of his visits to the town, is now several shop units, but The White Hart across the road

This was formerly the seat of the Hutton family, who produced two archbishops, both called Matthew, of York in 1595 and Canterbury in 1757.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

As we look east from Queen Square, the terrace we see on the right, Northumberland Buildings, built in 1778, is another design by the ubiquitous Thomas Baldwin.

Another major change in the years since has been the replacement of all the buildings along the left-hand side of the street.

A lone elderly oarsman reflects on life on the still waters of the little bay below Wray Castle and its impressive ornate boathouse.

The lifeboat house was deemed necessary by the local authorities in view of the dangerous channels and sandbanks already noted.

The virtual absence of motor traffic suggests that this photograph may have been taken in 1956, during the Suez Crisis petrol rationing, which did not end until the following year.

Nearby another monument remembers two teachers and 38 children, killed in 1944 when an American Liberator from Wharton crashed on the school.

Horndon has historical footnotes to make it both proud and ashamed. Firstly, the Shaa family, who owned land here, produced two Mayors of London.

Another market day, this time in Skipton, the ancient gateway town to the eastern Dales. Note the Dales farmers and their wives sitting lined up to the right of the statue, perhaps waiting for a bus.

This connection with both her and John Masefield is remembered at the annual poetry festival.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell. Another famous son of the town was J Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

Yet it was intermittent, and well into the 19th century there were fields on both sides of the road, while the postal address was 'near Worcester'.