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When tiring of the cosmopolitan delights of the town, visitors could climb onto the South Downs and enjoy sublime views.

The quarter boys above the church clock date from 1761, while the tea rooms (now Simon the Pieman, established in 1920 after this view was taken) replaced the Red Lion Inn which burned down in 1872.

They would be towed down to the sea, possibly by the horse in the picture.

Narrowboats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river. One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the right is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

The river Erme tumbles down and makes its way through the village. Ivybridge was a popular destination for day trips for the workers of Plymouth.

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

Branscombe is strung out down a deep valley running from the Devon downlands to the sea at Branscombe Mouth.

Down on the shore is the little village of Portwrinkle, another ex-pilchard fishing village.

Perhaps the people on the left are strolling down to the café in the Empire Cinema before seeing a film either there or in the Ritz next door.

The ornate balustrade has been dismantled leaving an altogether less imposing façade to look down the length of Queen's Avenue.

Dedicated to two 6th-century saints, St Mael and St Sulien, this church looks down on the town and has done since medieval times.

Further down West Borough, a Lyon's Tea van makes a delivery, perhaps to the Tivoli Cinema.

With their summer breezes, endless views and salty tang of the sea, the uncrowded expanses of the South Downs have long been a favourite haunt of writers and artists.

The Town Hall stands on the left of this photograph, which was taken from outside the church and looking down Highbridge Street.

To the left of the tower stands the Belfry Tree, a huge sycamore which blew down in a gale a decade after this picture was taken.

This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.

Emery Down, like many old Forest settlements, has seen its share of England's history.

The castle overlooks a branch of the river where it meanders between run-down buildings and small factories.

Note the chain of coloured light-bulbs along the front: at night this inn could be seen from several miles away down the river.

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.

This view looking east down Colne Road in the main street of the village of Cowling, near Keighley, shows the prominent monuments of Wainman's Pinnacle and Lund's Tower on the escarpment of Earl Crag on

They are obviously interested in something happening over the fence, down by the river.

In the days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands