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This photograph was taken further down the road and two years earlier than photograph 61439. Buildings clad in white weatherboarding line the road, which is quite steep for horse-drawn transport.

This view looks down Branthwaite Brow towards the River Kent.

Regular performers included the Royal Marine Band; the Bandstand was hit during the blitz and subsequently pulled down.

The village is perhaps best known for the RAF base nearby, now closed down and awaiting redevelopment.

This great peak gives some shelter to the little village of Seatown - a tiny resort of cottages and caravans just down the road from Chideock.

Behind the coastline are beautiful gardens and walks to attractive spots in the locality, such as Bembridge Down and the Culver Cliffs.

Impassable to commercial river traffic, the Nidd drops swiftly from the Pennines down to Knaresborough, where rapids wait in ambush for the unwary punter poling carefully through dark, romantic gorges.

Is this family smiling for the camera, or have they noticed that little Johnny, head down and pedalling like mad, is on a collision course with our man from Frith?

Another view south down North End taken just over half a century after picture No 38651. Now the tram lines have been doubled, and buses have appeared.

We have our backs to the Red Lion, and are looking down the A257 Sandwich and Deal road, with Lloyds Bank clearly visible on the right.

In the background the crowd is gathering, and the awnings are being taken down off the bandstand. The music is about to begin.

In the background the crowd is gathering, and the awnings are being taken down off the bandstand. The music is about to begin.

A tram rattles down the street. Both Birkenhead and Wallasey Corporations operated their own tramway systems.

he downs are mostly of chalk, and otherwise of sandstone, and each has its own special flora.

While many houses burned down in the fire of 1659, the 15th century church of St. Edmund survived because the churchyard served as a fire break.

We are on the south downs behind Seaford: a now-vanished rural scene, with stooks in the field on the left and horses descending the hill.

The five-arch bridge dates from the 13th century, although it has been widened and improved down the years.

Another general view, this time of the tranquil Usk as it wends its way down towards the Severn estuary south of Newport, Gwent. The Usk rises south-west of Trecastle in Powys.

This black weatherboarded smock windmill stands in a striking position on the South Downs, overlooking the coastline.

At this time, the buildings on the right are awaiting their fate - they were eventually pulled down. But they themselves had their origins in encroachment on the original larger medieval market place.

Looking down towards St Andrew's Street, with First Court, the oldest part of Christ's College, in the distance. The Capital and Counties bank (now Lloyd's) and Post Office are in the foreground.

This tumble-down cottage had probably changed little since those stirring times.

Since there is no evidence of Arthur ever existing, the claim that this is his grave is academic, though it would be foolish to ignore the power of handed-down legend.

In 1930 a flash flood swept down Laxey Valley with sufficient force to destroy the central section of the T-rocker, though it was later restored.