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Today's residents are more likely to skipper an expensive pleasure vessel.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients

It is to be hoped that these will continue to keep the church standing for another 700 years and more.

As with Lytham, it was foreseen that with more residents and more visitors larger church buildings must be available.

The trees have gone, sad to say, and the road is framed with yellow lines telling us where we can (and more often cannot) park.

The miniature railway was one of the major attractions of Drusilla's and still is, though the engines are somehow less utilitarian and more convincingly based on steam locomotives - the best one

The grounds became a park in the Victorian era, and more recently the 18th- century Old Palace has been enlarged to become part of the civic centre.

At first glance, this row of modern shops, named after the local Anstey Hall, has not changed since 1960; but closer inspection reveals new tenants in the shops, larger trees and flower beds, and more

A post office, a shop and a hairdresser's still serve a larger and more varied community.

Improved transport opened much of North Wales to the leisured classes, who were able to visit its grand and picturesque scenery, even in wilder and more remote locations.

Although Brighton and Hove have now been amalgamated into a city, in the past Hove was a much quieter and more conservative town than its neighbour.

Though smarter and more affluent today, much of St Mary Bourne is as it was when this photograph was taken.

Recent residents may have had cause to be grateful to Lord Dorchester for his patriarchal act.

This almost deserted beach at the village of Angmering-on-Sea dramatically contrasts with the crowds at the larger and more popular resorts.

It took a number of years to carry out the process of dividing up the land, laying out roads, digging drains, planting thorn hedges, improving the land, and harvesting the crops from more and more

Ships of 300 to 4,000 tons lay at the fore and aft buoys in the river, while others tied up at wharves.

South-east of Shalford, Wonersh has an old core with some fine timber-framed houses, including the 16th-century Grantley Arms pub; there are more old houses along the winding The Street, which starts

Along with Mill Street and Jordangate, Chestergate was one of the first streets to be properly paved, and, more importantly, to be provided with surface drainage.

The Angel Hotel on the left was one of three to cater for the motorist; the others were the George and Dragon and the Brunswick.

Here are more Essex weatherboard cottages with tiled roofs.