Written by Stuart Hood

Scarborough... the first British seaside resort.
Bridlington... Charlotte Bronte saw the sea here for the first time - and wept.
Grimsby... a great fishing port - a busy, noisy, thriving town; yet from the sea on a misty day it looks like a romantic Italian city.

When Stuart Hood was 12 years old, his father took him from Montrose, in Angus, by sea to London. The Bird's-Eye View helicopter follows the route of his journey of discovery south, over the salmon boats, the red cliffs and abbey of Arbroath, the lighthouses, the islands and castles of Berwick and Northumberland, the black beaches of Durham, the beautiful lonely flatlands of Lincolnshire and Norfolk, the Suffolk coast of Peter Grimes, the birds and fisherboys of the Essex mud-flats - and then into London's river.