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The church is unusual because the slope of the ground down to Puddingmore meant that the tower had to be built on firmer ground to the south-east of the building.

Beside the church is the Three Tuns Hotel owned by David Beatton, which burnt down in January 1925. Lord Nelson and Charles Dickens are reputed to have stayed there.

Further down the street is the gable of the Methodist chapel. In the distance is the sign of the Wheatsheaf. The building on the left is dated 1883, and the two shops have now become offices.

Collingham village has a fascinating mixture of houses - down past the parish church of St Oswald are the Old Rectory, the Manor House, the Dower House and some well preserved artisans' cottages.

Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby. The wide, open green provides space for visitors.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

This continues a bizarre, centuries-old tradition, in which participants race down a precipitous slope in pursuit of a Double Gloucester cheese.

Mercifully, some might say, it burned down in 1926. A new Memorial Theatre opened in 1932, incorporating surviving parts of its predecessor. It was renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961.

The view is from Lockyers School looking down Blandford Road North.

Behind her is a small steam tug which was making ready to tow several barges down the Trent to Nottingham. The steamer in the background is the locally-built (1896) and registered 'Dido'.

The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof. The first car on the right is a 1956 Ford E83W Utility.

The village of Emery Down is reached by turning right at Swan Green after leaving Lyndhurst on the A35 Bournemouth road.

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

The shop in the right foreground is now Mark Doel's butcher's shop; the modern library is a few doors further down towards the Angel, whose sign can be seen in the distance.

Down the street the King's Head has closed, but retains its Lacon's sign on the wall. Set back is the Vine Church, a Baptist Chapel rebuilt in 1868.

On the right is a tent and small wind shelters, while further along is a solitary bathing machine, which appears never to have been moved down to the sea.

For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

The church of St Mary was burnt down in 1914 and rebuilt by W Fellowes Prynne. What remained of the old building was the brick west tower dating back to around 1635.

During the Protectorate in the 17th century, the cathedral was in danger of being pulled down.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this photograph, which was taken looking towards the 2,403ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

Now all of that has changed, and so has Bridge Street, for it has virtually all been knocked down for redevelopment. On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.