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The hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', married a man who claimed to be

In the middle is the hanging sign for the Three Horse Shoes, which closed about 1968.

The clock on the right hangs outside Lakeland Laundries, a chain once present all around the district. Stead & Simpson is no longer on the left, but at the top of the street on the right.

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.

The Hatfield Hotel (centre right) looks very modern for 1950, and contrasts with the Victorian buildings on Parade Road South. In the foreground is a Victorian sprung cart in the shape of a lifeboat.

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland. Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers.

The mill was powered by four patent shuttered sails, and winding was controlled by hand with an endless chain gear hanging from the rear of the cap down to the staging. Only the brick base survives.

The pulpit incorporates some 14th-century panels, and now stands on a modern wooden base. Pevsner rather sadly describes the nave arcades as 'disappointingly scraped'.

The original inn that stood on this site dated from the 16th century, but it was dismantled in 1910 and the present inn built.

This scene has changed little in the past 50 years, apart from the Royal Oak (left) losing its hanging sign and side entrance in the 1980s after a couple of lorries demolished the porch!

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

The building on the right with a hanging sign was the Bell Alehouse.

This portrait, painted by Anna Zinkeisen in the 1950s, was commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society, but then given to the family. It now hangs in the Fox Talbot Museum.

This fine old 17th- century farmhouse, built in a mixture of materials, stone, brick, tile-hanging and long straw thatch, is typical of the area around Marlborough.

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

An elegant lamp standard adorns the zebra crossing in front of the Town Hall, and hanging baskets brighten the stonework.

The Rows continue around the corner and into Watergate Street. Here, just behind the horse, it is possible to see one of the many staircases that give access to the upper floor.

On the right is Sando's multi-paned frontage and, on the left, a sizeable shop for ladies, advertising its clearance sale of blouses, which is in full swing.

That finished when the farm closed, but the Darbys are still around - Graham Darby is currently licensee of The Gate Hangs Well on High Park Avenue.

We are looking in the opposite direction from No U3011.

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.