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This view along the main street towards the Market Square displays an air of rural pragmatism, with several of the shops displaying their wares for inspection outside.

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.

The nineteenth hole is to be found in Nether Court, a free-standing neo-Jacobean mansion by Percy Stone.

Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke.

The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.

Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth.

Go back to the Avon valley, turn right at the traffic lights by the Viaduct Inn, then left towards Lower Limpley Stoke.

The factory buildings in this picture have gone, and today this sprawling village is popular with those who work in Andover and commute daily to London.

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout.'

Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby.

Ignoring the small building (left) and the iron railings this could almost be a rural scene.

The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning

Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.

The row of shops opposite was known as The Polygon, though R H Toothill's chemist shop is on Church View.

The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills.

In the foreground horse-drawn reaping machines are offered for sale in the market.

This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.

Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.

Below the Sugar Loaf on the western outskirts of Abergavenny stands Nevill Court, previously named The Brooks.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower.

For most of the century the city's parks retained their popularity and were maintained meticulously, only in the last quarter of the century suffering from a lack of management and care.

Wildersmouth Beach - named after Wilder Brook - was the main beach before the cutting of the tunnels.

This was an old-fashioned ironmonger`s that kept its nails and screws in small drawers behind the counter.

It was here in the mid 1800s that Dr William Penny Brookes practised.