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A scene that was once familiar in many villages up and down the country. Notice the petrol pump on the right.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

It burned down in 1928.

By 1839, the parish church of Holy Trinity was becoming a little run down.

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.

She was provided with milk by two deer; when a huntsman came after them with dogs, he was struck down by God and died instantly.

From a slightly different viewpoint, this picture looks across Town Hall Gardens and the Chatham rooftops towards the Downs beyond.

Here we are looking down Queen Street from the junction with Kettering Road, towards the centre of the village where the spire of the church can be seen in the distance.

Leylandii trees line the nearside of the plot, but the view down the road remains very pastoral.

This view down St John's Street shows the Town Hall.

looks down towards the crossroads at the Guildhall. Opposite Godolphin Hall is the former Baptist Chapel, which became the Flora Cinema at about this time.

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.

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

We are looking down Penrith's main shopping street.The scene has not changed much since Victorian days, except for the fact that the horses have by now disappeared and have been replaced by motor vehicles

The pinnacled Victorian Parish Church of St John, Cragg Vale, with its crowded graveyard, looks down the isolated, wooded valley where the coiners once operated, far from the eyes of the law and authority

There is just room to draw up a few boats at this remote fishing cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head at the south-west corner of the Land's End peninsula.

Here we see the Llandoger Trow Inn, whilst a little way down the street is the Theatre Royal, home of the Bristol Old Vic since 1946.

Cat Gill is the stream which plunges under the bridge on its way down to meet Derwent Water.

Virtually every shop in the picture has since either moved elsewhere in the city centre or closed down altogether: Marks and Spencer moved to New Canal, and Woolworths to the High Street.

We are further down into the town and looking back up towards the clock tower, which is just visible.

Cat Gill is the stream which plunges under the bridge on its way down to meet Derwent Water.

Down river from Bishop's Bridge in Norwich is Pull's Ferry, a 15th century water-gate.

The streets are deserted, so everyone must be down at the beach enjoying the sun and sea breezes.

Regular cruises take enthusiasts down-river to see the famous avocets on the river's mud banks. These fisherfolk and boatmen share a rare idle moment in a busy day.