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This famous vista, taken from Bankside, shows the glorious dome of St Paul's rising over the roofs of London.The river is edged not with the anonymous and monumental office blocks we see today but

The Heath itself is much reduced, but in places you can still find the early spacious villas where they have not been swept away for blocks of flats.

The central block held art rooms and other communal areas, but great effort was made to keep the sexes separate.

The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.

Still recognisable today, this view shows on the right the well-known arcade of shops which started life as an island block between Back Row and the present Market Place; note the rabbits hanging outside

Here is a fascinating picture taken from the newly built block of flats, Low Cross Court.

This building, known as the Matthews Block, was named after Miss Marcia Matthews, headmistress from 1923 to 1945.

But the buildings are unaltered, and so are some of the tenants: Woolworth's and Marks & Spencers still occupy the two main wings of this block, as they have since 1966.

As is the case with Mulgrave Road, a few modern blocks of flats replace the earlier houses.

Since the photograph was taken, houses have been built to the right, and a block of flats to the left.

The south side of Windsor Road lay undeveloped until c1880 with the construction of the block seen here beyond the roundabout.

The Otter pub, a 1930s Surrey vernacular- style road-house, has now been transformed into a farmyard complex: the upper floor of the main block has been white clap-boarded and given a tiled lean-to

The sloping site was successfully incorporated into the design of the blocks of flats, allowing for garages to be unobtrusively accessible.

The 1870s terrace on the left now houses Paiges Bar in the left-hand part, while the 1850s block beyond has been demolished.

The photograph shows two parallel late 16th-century gabled blocks with large mullion and transom windows.

offering morning coffee, luncheons, teas and dinners, and architecturally no great shakes; it has since been heavily modernised, and is now Heathside, a family restaurant, with a large block

The almost new Vauxhall Wyvern E model is parked nearly opposite Collins, the antique dealer, and adjacent to the rather modern houses behind the slag-block wall.

Only at the far end, at the Tavistock Street junction, have any Victorian houses been lost - they were replaced by a four-storey block of flats in the 1970s.

The gardens and the houses on the left have been replaced by a routine 1960s block, Kingsbury House.

Beyond is now 'Fred's Folly', the 1960s County Council office tower block, a landmark for miles around.