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Next to the circle is the railed King Stone, badly deformed by weather and people. The railings do little to enhance its setting.

Two soldiers relax on a bench next to the bandstand in the sunlight at Canbury Gardens, downstream of Kingston railway bridge.

of the same industry in Bradford on Avon (it produced, among others things, the rubber washers used worldwide in aero- sol cans) are about to undergo commercial and residential development on the Kingston

Today, proceeds go towards the upkeep of Kingston Lisle Church.

The few waterside industries of Kingston were based off the High Street with their wharves backing onto the Thames.

Named after Rokesley, a 15th-century owner of the surrounding farmland, Ruxley Lane links the roads from Ewell to Chessington and to Kingston, and crosses the Hogsmill River south of Tolworth.

In the distance a single-decker bus, probably a 213 from Kingston and Cheam, approaches the crossroads at the Cock Hotel.

St James' Church at Kingston, in effect the Scott family chapel of the Earls of Eldon from Encombe House, viewed looking southwards from cottages in South Street.

He was the first Catholic Lord Mayor of London since the reformation, and St Raphael's was the first Catholic Church to be built in Kingston since this time.

Formerly the Kingston Arms coaching inn, the Clinton Arms has connections with Lord Byron, who stayed here whilst his first book of poems, 'Fugitive Pieces', was being printed at the local firm of S &

Ferring is a residential village near the sea.The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion.

The earliest reference to a church at Kingston tells of the crowning of Saxon kings and a Great Council taking place in the 9th century.

The old lords of Kingston were the Norman nobles, the Lacys, but this palatial Restoration house was built in 1663-5 for Sir Ralph Bankes, the son of the former attorney general Sir John.

The weatherboarded Spring Hotel, in the background at the junction of Chessington Road and Kingston Road, was once a farmhouse, until this stretch of the highway was created in 1834.

Those who come to Hampton Court Palace by way of Bushy Park or from Kingston enter through the Lion Gates, which face the end of the splendid avenue of chestnut trees.

Shoppers before this time had to make their way to Wimbledon, Croydon or Kingston.

It is Saturday in Kingston Market Place, and swarms of shoppers have descended to see the fresh produce on offer that might supplement the wartime rationing that was still in force.

This view, along the Portsmouth Road, formerly the A3, shows the late Victorian expansion of Kingston past Surbiton.

There is a bus stop near the seated man; this was for the regular service from Kingston, a major shopping area, through the centre of Weybridge and onwards to the station.

The memorial was erected in 1900 (says Alfred Kingston in his 1906 'History of Royston') in remembrance of Queen Victoria.

The Norman church keeps the registers of Kingston, a village long lost due to coastal erosion. Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground.

The town of Kingston was awarded County Town status in 1893, which it retained even after becoming a London Borough in 1964.

Just a few of the favourites that have gone include include Kingston's the butcher's, Taylor's department store, the Army and Navy department store, Fine Fare supermarket, J Sainsbury (relocated

To the right, on the corner of Kingston Road, is R E Christopher, chemists since 1863 (the premises now belong to Davies & Davies, estate agents).