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It was burned down around 1900 and given a tiled octagonal roof with dormers and a weather vane.

The half-timbered house on the left was the Priest's House, and it stands beside a small church which was rebuilt in brick after being burned down in 1514.

Down at Church End there is another more well-known and photographed pond; it and the 13th-century parish church are to the left of the War Memorial.

The King's Road was famous for trendy clothes and antique shops; in the 1960s Minis and Triumph Herald convertibles cruised up and down, the pavements thronged with peacock-gaudy young men and women.

The three pointed gables to its left belong to the 1824 warehouses in which guano, flax and cotton were stored (it was pulled down in 1965).

This is the road down to the shore (and Red Bank Farm). Red Bank is one of the spots from which you can cross the sands over to Kents Bank.

The prosperous Georgian feel of the town originates with the presence of the castle and with its role as a market town and agricultural centre.

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

We are looking down from the keep of Clitheroe Castle to the town below.

On occasions at dead of night, staff are convinced they have seen a lady with long, dark hair and wearing long black period clothes walk down this corridor to what was the arched front door of the

Pentewan was developed as a port in the 1820s for shipping ores and china clay, which were brought down from St Austell on a railway built in 1829.

The centre is overlooked by the 1100ft- high Witton Fell, and on the green is a huge boulder brought down by 20 horses in 1859.

This view looks south down the High Street past a motor bike with its acetylene headlamp towards the old Market House with its cupola.

It was a co-educational school until the Girls' County School was built further down Buttrills Road.

It is rather surprising that most of the buildings in the shot have survived, although generally in a down-graded form. The bushes on the right have gone, to be replaced by shops.

This shows the town, the railway and the headland. The first station had been provided only 20 years before.

It was built mainly in the 12th to the 14th centuries, but exhibits work of every period down to the present day.

The huge cedar tree towering over the 'New Laid Eggs' sign was blown down by a gale in the 1970s.

Much of the pulled-down abbey found its way into the church, including the misericords.

The two Llanwenarths were joined by a rope ferry, which closed down in 1951. From the churchyard there is a magnificent view of the Blorenge mountain.

It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens. It was once a strategic seaport, where coasters transhipped their cargoes into fenland lighters.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

Along with Deal and Sandown, Walmer was one of the 'Three Castles which keep the Downs'.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed