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The sun is shining on another outstanding Hampshire village with some timeless timber-framed cottages and nicely cut hedges. The broadcaster Sir David Frost is rumoured to live here.

The first shop on the left is the newsagent, and next to it is the Co-op. Today both these shops are as they were, except that the newsagent no longer sells bicycles.

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

The hatted ladies are leaving the Suspension Bridge on the north bank, the Embankment Gardens side: casual wear in the 1920s was somewhat more formal than today.

Not medieval, it was installed in 1827, apparently using a design for another church.

A collection of almost classic cars parked on both sides of the street issues a warning of things to come in the small towns around Leicestershire.

The original stronghold was a timber motte and bailey, and belonged to the de Turberville family. When rebuilt in stone in 1272 it featured both a shell keep and a shell gatehouse.

The font and lectern are both noteworthy, and a mediaeval antiphoner in superb condition is on display.

Here we see the Grammar School from another angle, looking from East Road back into the city.

Note the radio shop on the right—in country districts, the radio, with its BBC Home and Light programmes, helped people to keep in touch.

Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

The busy port is seen from almost from the same viewpoint as No 79886, above, but looking to the right.

The summer exodus of holidaymakers to the seaside resorts of Britain made piers a popular and lucrative venture. This Victoria Pier has had a chequered history.

Tennis was also catered for (and still is) in another area of this extensive park. The central location is easily accessible to all.

The Basingstoke Canal, constructed between 1788 and 1794, was supposed to be part of a waterway linking the Thames with both the English and Bristol Channels.

Here we are standing on the slipway where Ferry Lane disappears into the River Thames.

Another view, similar to H6031 (above), shows the brick-paved path and the holly bushes. At the left is a silver birch, which also survives today.

On the north side of St Paul's Square is the old corn exchange, an uncompromising Victorian building whose foundation stone was laid in October 1872.

It was to be another sixty years or so before a second, high-level bridge was built farther up the river and eased the traffic congestion problem.

His model village provided all the essential living amenities, and for recreation he provided a spacious park on the opposite side of the river and canal.

In this view, the photographer looks back past the Bucks Evangelistic Mission Hall to the Georgian-fronted cottages on the right of photograph number A84022.

This view of the village on the side of the valley gives a glimpse on the left of the priory which William Leigh, who had just been converted to the Catholic faith, had built; the Dominicans moved into

Dawlish began as two discreet hamlets, one inland by the parish church and another on the seashore, but quickly grew as the first visitors arrived to holiday in the late 18th century.

Later it was owned by the Harrington family, who lost both father and son and heir in a Civil War battle. It is still a private residence today.