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Slad huddles round the road that runs from Stroud to Birdlip. When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture.

Lose Hill, at 1,563ft, is the eastern extremity of a fine ridge which runs from Mam Tor.

This scene, with Lieutenant Colonel Tebbutt's 19th-century barograph under the shelter in front of the village shop has hardly changed.

Hythe is now a popular residential area standing just across the water from the great city of Southampton.

The Bellevue Hotel at Pegwell is pictured here in its clifftop setting.The structure that is visible on the left was an artificial lagoon offering visitors sea-water bathing in safe, sheltered

East Street runs parallel to the High Street, and small alleyways between the houses connect the two.

The railway was a working narrow gauge route running passengers up to the Corris quarries and bringing slate back.

The Welshpool and Llanfair Railway still chuffs its way along the 8-mile narrow gauge line between the two towns.

Before the opening of the M3, it used to run right through to the Portsmouth Road. At this time the road was just being developed.

A swan cruises on the river as it curves into the east side of the village, running by a municipalised garden of finely-mown grass, and a statutory wooden seat carefully placed under the only tree of consequence

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway—surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country—running alongside.

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

With an old castle, and the River Exe running through the town, it presents plenty of opportunities for recreation.

For many years, salmon were an important catch in the river. They still run today, but in nothing like the quantities they once did.

Shops like this might see no more than a dozen customers a day, and were often run by widows, struggling to pay the rent to the landlord as well as suppliers' bills.

The Hundred, which runs down to the Market Place, is lined with striking houses and cottages. The Sawyers Arms, now a private house, can be spotted on the right.

Like other villages that are found along the course of the River Evenlode and its tributary streams, Ascott-under-Wychwood's function was milling.

At this time the stores (centre) were run by George Watts, and the bakery by George Hayden. Notice the complete lack of road traffic.

The Furness Railway paddle-steamer 'Philomel' is entering Fleetwood.

We are looking towards the inner harbour-now the yacht marina—with a paddle steamer and three brigs at moorings.The chimney on the left of the Admiral Harvey pub probably belonged to Ramsgate's

This is the view south along the beach from Rockley Point. The road to the main buildings and Poole can be seen running up from the beach by the ice cream hut.

The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.

All the buildings in the picture survive, although the shop fronts have changed. The white and gold-fronted Lyon`s tea shop is now an Italian restaurant.

The Royal Arms and 'By Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II' can be seen proudly displayed on the front of the building.