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Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

The house on our left, with the lofty fir trees, is called The Firs to this day. The cottage opposite was at one time the village post office.

The sign by the people on the footpath advertises Woods, Coal & Coke Merchants, later to become 'Punch' Mullard's builder's yard and presently, Spinningfield House flats.

Their house was demolished about 200 years ago, and traces of it could still be seen 100 years ago.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

The premises have since been converted into a private house. Notice the decorator up his ladder taking a short break to make sure he is in the picture.

There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House.

Known affectionately as 'The Pepperpot', Godalming's attractive market house of 1814 stands at the junction of three streets in central Godalming.

Partially destroyed by fire in 1933, it stopped production in 1952 and is now a private house.

With the slaughterhouse, the 'chemical manure' factory and a railway engine shed, the houses to the left must have suffered greatly from the smoke and smells emanating from this site.

Bond's was a department store – 'The House For Value and Distinctive Ideas'. It was justly proud of its restaurant (advertised on the banner), as it was a stylish and popular meeting-place.

Wash Road was a road of many farms: Watch-House, Mundell's, Petchey's, Benson's, Puckle's, Sellers, and Laindonponds.

However, eventually many substantial houses and a pier were built. Here we see donkeys lined up ready to delight the children.

The Posting House on the right is a reminder of the earlier age of horse-drawn transport.

This attractive little town of slate-hung houses is five miles inland from the sea.

Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury.

Beyond were firstly Roman houses and then Anglo-Saxon: all were cleared to make the outer bailey for the Norman castle. Behind are the tree-clad ramparts of the inner bailey along the ridge.

This medieval inn with characteristic ranges on each side of the yard reached through the carriageway, was in fact a 15th-century house converted to an inn about 1500.

This, like the one at the Tower of London, housed the castle chapel. In fact only the sub-chapel survived, because the chapel in the storey above was removed during the 1683 demolition.

Notice also the Clock House – so-called because of the clock on the side of the building.

In the background is the Monument, rising over the roofs of Adelaide House, home of the Pearl Assurance Company.

The Boat House on the right of this view was one of the earliest buildings of Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's holiday village to be completed in 1911, even before the Meare itself was finished.

West Bank winds up the hill towards the significantly-named Miners' Standard public house on the hill above the village.

In 1831 John, Earl of Shrewsbury, made this house his permanent home.