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The Butter Market also provided advertising space for all sorts of businesses, from Treleaven's outfitters to the Great Western Railway.

The Butter Market also provided advertising space for all sorts of businesses, from Treleaven's outfitters to the Great Western Railway.

The Butter Market also provided advertising space for all sorts of businesses, from Treleaven's outfitters to the Great Western Railway.

By the time of this photograph the narrow gauge railway from Barnstaple had reached Lynton, and the old coaching service was retained purely for holidaymakers.

To the right of the tree is the former Elizabethan grammar school, which has two very famous pupils in its history - the diarist Samuel Pepys, and Oliver Cromwell, MP for Huntingdon and Lord Protector.

Southampton's famous Floating Bridge enabled foot passengers and traffic to cross the Itchen between the city and the south-eastern suburb of Woolston.

There may not be anything in the way of a garden, but the flower boxes and tubs certainly help to brighten up what otherwise appears to be a parking place for bicycles and hand carts.

The lace for Queen Victoria's wedding dress was made in Beer at a cost of £1000.

Fashionable hotels soon lined the front, with villa residences and smart cottages being erected along the slopes of Sid Vale to cater for a dramatic increase in the resident population.

This firm of builders and contractors had the memorable telephone number East Grinstead 2.

Boats travelled upriver to Stourport (the northern limit of navigation) or downriver as far as Tewkesbury.

The Stockwell Streets are the heart of what is known as the Dutch Quarter, a recent name for the area in which Flemish weavers settled around 1600.

The Esplanade has been landscaped, with grassy greens, paved walkways, plenty of seating, and leisure amenities. New houses have also been erected nearby.

Temple Square was probably a principal crossroads in the 10th-century Anglo-Sacon burh, with Kingsbury the market place at the south-east corner of the early town.

The Simmonds fleet of buses would often work their way up and down Southgate Street.

The trip along the four-mile minor road over the Gap is spectacular, with the road crossing and re-crossing the river at the bottom of the ravine.

Pickering Castle lies to the north of the town and was founded by William the Conqueror, though the earliest ruins date from the 12th century.

Old Sarum, an Iron Age fort, a junction for four Roman roads, a cathedral town and the original Salisbury, reveals its past with this display of excavated artefacts.

The cottages were built between 1870 and 1872 under the direction of Sir John Guest's wife Charlotte, who was responsible for the many familiar estate cottages now to be found scattered across Poole.

Originally, of course, like the Norman St Alban's Abbey, the walls were plastered or rendered and limewashed, then painted to mimic fine stonework blocks.

These are the local breed, Hereford cattle, distinguishable by their white faces and the ridge of white extending along their backs.

Many of the cottages have survived, retaining their original charm.

The large hire-boat companies have taken over many of the small boat-building firms, and Easticks has now become Hoseasons. These sheds burnt down in about 1996.

One large window also replaces the two to the right of the main entrance.