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A flying boat undergoes repair at West Cowes looking across to the famous Saunders Roe yards at East Cowes.

Moreton is the last resting place of Lawrence of Arabia, who lived nearby at Cloud's Hill.

St John's Church c1965 When the Domesday commissioners were doing their rounds in 1086, the most important royal manor in the area was at Unstone, which had its own church and a priest.

Because of the unstable nature of the cliffs above Bournemouth's beaches, many of the buildings were built at a distance from the cliff edge.

The bandstand at Canbury Gardens was a gift to the people of Kingston from a former mayor, C E Nuthall.

Jesus College grew from a 12th-century convent.

By the early 1890s, the Fiume Whitehead 18-inch torpedo had a range varying from 440 yds to about 900 yds.

At Douglas, passengers can land at all states of the tide.

This atmospheric photograph of the Medina at Newport gives some idea of the harbour at the height of its prosperity.

One of the college's more interesting pupils was Joseph Wright who had begun working at Salt's Mill, Saltaire when he was just seven years old.

This atmospheric photograph of the Medina at Newport gives some idea of the harbour at the height of its pros- perity.

The county boasted three of the highest bridges on the British railway network (rails above ground or high water level): Deepdale at 161 ft, Hownes Gill at 150 ft, and the Hawthorn at 110.5 ft.

At one time, the waters stretched another half-mile inland, but the land has been filled in and built on.

The Domesday survey does not mention a mill at Over.

Originally High Street, its approach from the ford across the Roach was via Bull Brow.

The English Civil War ended at Stow-on-the-Wold when the parliamentarian Sir William Brereton defeated the aged royalist Sir Jacob Astley in 1646.

St Leonards Pier opened in 1891 at an initial cost of £30,000 as a companion for the pier at Hastings.

St Ives is still famous for its cats.

St Leonard's church was at the heart of the civilian community at one end of the hill, with the castle at the other end and the High Street with its market linking the two.

At No 23 is Rosa Lewis Cole, confectioner, and next door at No 24 is Wiltshire & Sons, butchers; their grocer's shop is opposite (left) at No 22.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

The sound of the hooter at set times signalled the end of shifts, but when it sounded at an unusual time, it conveyed news of a pit accident.

At the end of the strip of land known as the Shingles is the lighthouse at Hurst Point, warning ships of the mudbanks and shallows that line the nearby coastline.