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Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

To the right are the post-war council houses and the filling station in the Globe Hotel car park. The blue sign for the M1 (left) is a new addition to the countryside.

In the intervening years there has been some housing infill, but essentially the area between church and shoreline is much as it was in 1955.

This view shows the entrance to the Phipps Arms, formerly the Black Horse Inn. Known locally as 'the Phipper', it is currently being converted into residences.

The car is heading towards Whitby, and just beyond the tallest building on the left, which is now demolished, lies the Duke William public house.

This uncompromising modern building opened on 10 October 1952, and was soon filled with the post-war baby boom and the children of Woolston's new housing developments.

It stood here for centuries before the neighbouring resort had a single house. Despite some modern building, it remains as attractive as this photograph suggests.

In front of the Tower, now housing the Coastal Defence Museum, the colonnaded building has been replaced by the present 1960s-style Restaurant and Sun Lounge.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

The hotel is on the site of the medieval monastery of Weybridge, a small house of canons providing hospitality for travellers between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, both by road and by river.

The lawn of a country house sweeps down to the water; a pile of mown grass can be seen on the right.

Freedom House was built by 1960.

Its castle, one of four block- houses built by Henry VIII, was garri- soned until Victorian times, such was the prolonged fear of invasion from across the channel.

Derwent Terrace, now the A6, runs alongside the river, faced by shops and with other houses spreading up the steep hillside.

Here we see the Windmill public house, where Truman's beer was sold. The building apparently dates from the early years of the 18th century. The small notice on the signpost discourages coaches.

He converted the Abbot's House into his home, which later became a school.

The later school buildings (left) and the Chantry House were demolished about the same time and replaced with modern flats called Beaufort Mews.

The building has been painted white and is now a private house.

Modern developments have replaced the houses in the background.

This area has been recently developed with new housing on the right and Blacksmith's End, a modern development, on the left. The garage has also gone, to be replaced by a bungalow.

The Greyhound public house is one of the few buildings on this side of the street to have remained unchanged.

Overlooking the scene is the grand building and clock tower housing Barclays Bank.

Both locomotives are now housed in the Darlington Railway Centre & Museum, North Road Station.

Judge Jeffreys lodged in this Dorchester house in the aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685; he sentenced some 300 rebels to death, though many were transported instead.