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It was said that the dragoons left town in as much haste as did the Mayoress.

The village sits three miles west of the Tunbridge Wells on the East Grinstead road, which is much busier today than when this picture was taken some 50 years ago.

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

The actual battle took place below the escarpment in the much flatter area between Radway and Kineton.

The pub dates from about 1840, and used to have a later elaborate arched canopy, now long gone. The pub is now called the Villagers.

Once the sixth wealthiest of England's medieval monasteries, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, and much of its stonework was carried by river to London.

When the route was first laid out it was deemed unlikely that there would ever be much expansion here and it was known locally as 'David Lewis's Folly' after the Councillor who decided on it.

The scenic St Ives branch railway follows the coast, with a four-arched viaduct crossing the little valley behind the beach; the station platform is just beyond.

The bypass on the south side of town was opened in 1926; it was much needed to relieve the narrow streets of both local china clay and through traffic.

By coincidence, a young engineer by the name of Isambard Kingdom Brunel had been staying in Clifton for his health, spending much of his time sketching in the Gorge.

This fine five-arched bridge over the River Derwent at Rowsley has carried traffic for nearly four hundred years.

It's quite possible that the attendant pictured here is the much-loved 'Sammy the Boatman'.

With smartly-dressed attendants very much in evidence we may be viewing an early morning scene as the boats are lined up and ready but there are few paying customers.

In the 19th century much reconstruction had taken place. By 1926 its owner, the Honourable Mrs Wilson-Fulmer (Lady Baillie) had begun a 30 year restoration project.

As a result of the expansion of the town since 1959 due to London overspill, much of the center was redeveloped.

Although much eroded by weather, the cross is adorned by an interlaced rope pattern and various sculptures, including a horse and its rider.

On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider. Here the river Trent is the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Indeed, in 1924 the bank liked the style so much it demolished the building on the far left and added a further bay in the same style. Later the Midland Bank, it is now the HSBC.

Beaufort Square is very much the hub of Chepstow.

The vicar could not afford to keep the cottages, and the Church Commissioners sanctioned their sale to the then tenants, much to the annoyance of a local entrepreneur, who wanted to demolish

The Common is much appreciated by the local residents.

It was built on the site of Mother Downes' charming thatched cottage in 1870 and was much enlarged ­twenty years later.

The Broads have been called the pleasure grounds of Norfolk; they are the remains of a huge estuary that once spread over much of the eastern part of the county.

This view, looking along the Roath Brook, does not give much idea of the park's scale. But at a total of 102 acres, the park was a pretty immense area for a day out.