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Both the buildings in the foreground are now part of the Roy empire; the battlemented one, oddly named 'Miss Roy', sells clothes. The original store is now a food hall and restaurant..

There is no evidence of the German bombardment in 1914 to see.

This is another view of Stanifield Lane, but further out from the village. The pre-war houses stand neat and square on the lane. Farington is a parish in South Ribble Borough.

Looking westwards along Main Street towards Lyme Regis, with the plateau of Langdon Hill forming the skyline (centre).

This is one of the six locations in the village where well dressing is carried out. For those interested in this ancient art, the dates coincide with those at Monyash. mentioned elsewhere.

In 1688, the first recorded curing of red herrings took place here. Here we can see the pebble beach.

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses which had gardens backing onto the beach.

We are looking across the river Wensum, past the ancient Pull's Ferry named after a 19th-century ferryman; the cathedral and its precincts belie the industrial nature of late 19th-century Norwich.

The swivel section of the stone bridge built in 1835 to replace the old Dutch-style drawbridge opens to let a ship through. Then, as now, crowds gathered to watch the operation.

Harvesters work the fields within the shadow of Netherbury Church in the last peaceful years before the Great War.

Bedfordshire brick and pantiles on the roofs place this row of cottages fronting on to the street in the early 19th century.

Derry's Clock, erected in 1862 by Samuel Derry, was known to generations of Plymothians as 'the four-faced deceiv- er' because all the clock faces told slightly different times.

A number of inns, hotels and bed and breakfast establishments cater for the tourist.

This brick gateway, which dates back to the 1520s, is all that stands of a scheme by Cardinal Wolsey to build a college in Ipswich.

This view, from the famous High and Over viewpoint on the South Downs, shows the big meanders and flat valley floor of the only undeveloped river-mouth in the south-east.

Blue-and-white and green-and-white striped awnings cover the rows of stalls which threaten to overflow into the churchyard.

This view of the High Street must have been taken from a bedroom window. The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls.

This was because the Bishops of Worcester maintained a palace in the village, and the church had to be big enough to accommodate the Bishop's entourage.

Of its sizeable population, many commute to surrounding East Midland towns.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

Even in Victorian times it had a wild reputation, but it reached the zenith of its colourful activities in the 20th century.

One medical expert at the time boasted that 'residence at Bexhill is especially beneficial in anaemia, scrofula and tuberculous diseases, and in diseases of the respiratory organs'.

The gates to the churchyard are cast iron and very obviously much older, perhaps from the previous church which was built on the site in 1839.

Once belonging to the collegiate church of St Mary-in-the-Fields, this green was an unofficial park until 1877.