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This photograph was taken from Folly Bridge; the reach from here to Iffley Lock is used by the college eights for training, and for the bump races known as Torpids and Eights.

This is the only eight-sailed mill England, and has just (2004) had its ogee cap and sails repaired and reinstated. When working it is probably the most beautiful windmill in England.

The 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene has a massive 16th-century tower with rounded pinnacles, which houses a peal of eight bells. The public house is appropriately named the Eight Bells.

This is the only eight-sailed mill England, and has just (2004) had its ogee cap and sails repaired and reinstated. When working it is probably the most beautiful windmill in England.

The old fort seen on the headland of Castle Point was completed in 1781 and boasted eight cannons, each capable of firing a nine or twelve- pound shot.

In the fifty eight years from the picture opposite (40609), the ruins and graveyard have been cleaned up, and the ivy removed.

The spire is splay-footed, the pyramidal cap being chamfered away from the base to form eight sides.

Boulters Lock is probably the most famous lock on the Thames, and was the first and the lowest on the river of the first set of eight to be built under the legislation of 1770.

In 1920 its population was only a little over 3000; Newark, just eight miles away, had a population of around 16,000.

The Ship Hotel, on the right of the photograph, was one of the eight inns and taverns that at one time or another stood along this side of the Market Place.

This small stone circle has only eight stones; it is distinguished because of the size of the stones – one is nine feet high - the fact that they are made of white quartz.

The only mention that Rugeley gets in the 1920 Dunlop Book is for the twelve-bed Shrewsbury Arms, which could also provide garaging for eight automobiles.

This is a small Bronze Age stone circle with only eight stones; it is only distinguished because of the size of the stones - one is nine feet high.

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

Next door is the weather-boarded Eight Bells.

Boulters Lock is probably the most famous lock on the Thames, and was the first and the lowest on the river of the first set of eight to be built under the legislation of 1770.

The giant slabs that make up the spans can weigh up to eight tons.

The pinnacled tower of the parish church of All Saints at Hunmanby, eight miles south of Scarborough, dominates this photograph.

By rail Castletown was only seven minutes away, Port Erin eight minutes, and Port St Mary seven minutes.

Perhaps they served in the Boer War; in eight years' time these men would be at war again in the battlefields of Europe.

Its tiny towerless church stands sentinel over the cottages, gardens and meadows as it has done for some eight hundred years.

The fine 103ft tower has a peal of eight bells.

The church of St Mary is Early English in style and some eight hundred years old.

These low, half-timbered and thatched cottages at Repton probably date from Tudor times; they give an indication of the antiquity of this sleepy township, which lies eight miles to the south-west of Derby