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Further down the street we can just see the sign for the Fishes public house.

These were horse-drawn; but instead of using locks, the tub boats were hauled up and down inclined planes by engine to reach the different water levels.

This photograph, taken from the tower of the Town Hall, looks down past the formal square to the buildings of Bishop Street, which include the reference library by Edward Burgess of 1904 and the former

The Working Men's Club is now at The Lodge, Welton Road, just out of sight to the left down Abbey Street.

But then, Essex people were not known for going down without a fight.

Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

This long straggling village, in the centre of the old tin mining district, sits on a steep hill running down to the Tamar. We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill.

High Salvington, a hamlet on the downs, is now swallowed up, as is the Findon Valley below to the east; in effect it is a suburb cut off by the teeming A27.

A Ship Canal Pleasure Steamer Company was formed, and weekends and Bank Holidays would see two or three of these paddle steamers taking passengers on sight-seeing trips up and down the canal.

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.

A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols. A little further along on the left is Cleopatra’s Needle.

Along with the substantial numbers of parked cars along the verges, a laden lorry and a coach are advancing down the High Street, representative of the immense numbers of similar heavy vehicles which

It was later burnt down, some say by a drunken Irishman who objected to the Duke's politics.

The main road leads down past Holy Trinity church, which was built in 1836. The scene is similar today but the road is very busy with motor traffic.

When the tower itself came down in about 1912, the tower building continued to be a centre for entertainment.

There was also a blacksmith down the road where there could be horses being shod, and there are no TV aerials. The village water was still probably obtained from the roadside tap on the left.

Further down, near all the cars, is Frydays, a good fish and chip shop and restaurant.

B G Davies, 'Solicitor and Notary', have their offices on the corner, with the Cash Clothing Co and Newman's the chemist further down the road.

But then, Essex people were not known for going down without a fight.

The mill ceased work in 1912, and was accidentally burnt down in 1921.

A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols.

Vagrants have wandered the fields and lanes of Britain down the centuries. Sunject to no laws, they were the truly free people of the world.

As we look north down St Barnabas Road, we see that the trees and houses look very new.