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During the Second World War, Mrs Armitage, who had taken to using her pony and trap to save petrol, would tie the pony up to the pump when she came down to the village to shop, never mind

Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down

The area around Glasson is teaming with wildlife, and is a bird watcher's paradise from Conder Green down to Cockerham Sands in the south. Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.

down, and nobody appeared to be very interest- ed in it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

As the town grew, Digbeth stretched from the High Street down to a small open stream running through the valley bottom.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

This is now an extremely busy road, and there is a host of traffic lights where five roads meet at the bottom of Lindum Hill, just about where the car is coming down the road.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.