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The Bear Hotel (right) was a coaching inn; the present building dates from the 18th century.

The guns appear to bear more resemblance to those used at Waterloo than to those that would be used eight years later at the outbreak of the Great War.

This row of twelve cottages bears a large crest in the centre with the date 1905.

With the turret of the Chine Hotel, which served as a landmark for Channel shipping, prominent in the back- ground, the elegant row of Victorian houses along Undercliffe Road bears tribute to the enduring

But this spot has not always been peaceful - the village green not only served as common ground for local people to graze their animals, but has been long ago scene of bear baiting in the past.

However, it is not known why this particular pub bears the name.

Architecturally The Bear is an odd blend, part rural Cotswold, part Bavarian hunting lodge.

The right-hand house, converted from an old barn, bears the coat of arms of Christopher Kenn over the doorway.

Farm buildings in the heart of the village bear testimony to a time when most villagers worked on the land.

The roof is decorated with angels bearing the marks of shots supposedly fired at them by Puritan soldiers.

But the scene to the left of the picture rather bears out the fact that modern industrialisation has rather left the waterways to the leisure boaters.

The market cross bears the date 1674.

Tucked in behind the Bear is an early 19th-century rebuilding of a timber house, which may have survived the Great Fire.

The building on the left was a non-conformist chapel and bears the date 1668, whilst hidden at the end is the Calf's Head.

Until the early years of the 20th century, a thriving brewery, which was run by the Brown family, stood on the green.

Just before the Bear Hotel (left), which is still trading today, is a crossroads where South Street and East Street meet.

Everything bears the hallmarks of the late 1950s and early 60s—from the contours of the ice-cream van (right) to the Guinness advertisement (with the shoe-soles) on the hoarding (centre left).

The static pose of the child and ploughman bear testament to the long exposure time necessary for photographs in those days.

Everything bears the hallmarks of the late 1950s and early 60s—from the contours of the ice-cream van (right) to the Guinness advertisement (with the shoe-soles) on the hoarding (centre left).

The New Bear Hotel, left, is now Silver Street House, having been restored by Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 1977.

They were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.

The present bridge bears a plaque inscribed 'County Bridge 1792'.

This scene is a contrast with the one seven years earlier, when the town packed into the Market Place to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

At one of these cottages lived an elderly lady, who spent much time seated at her window, who as a four-year-old girl had been present at the Battle of Waterloo with her father, a colour sergeant in