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Basildon's first new school—Swan Mead Junior & Infants, in Church Road—opened in April 1954. Kingswood was built soon after.

By 1894 the Meads area is filling up with villas.

Reading developed further south on higher land along the banks of the River Kennet, well away from the then marshy meads bordering the River Thames.

Ray Mead Road passes between the gardens, which partly survive, and Bridge House. Sadly Bridge House is no more: a Texaco garage does not seem an equitable exchange in townscape terms.

The tree and garden walls belong to the Meades, a house of about 1800 with a fine Ionic porch and set in large grounds.

The roughcast was stripped and the timbers exposed, and new housing was built behind in Bunyans Mead. The Swan is still an inn and virtually unchanged now.

Apart from some mechanism, all that remains is Laundry Mead to the left of the view; here, it is said, the rags were hung out to dry before being mashed by the mill's trip hammers to make high quality

If we scratch beneath the surface, we will find tales of old manor houses, smuggling, the deadly marsh fever, ghosts, education, transport, and a new form of religion, retail therapy!

After the First World War, a dignified war memorial was built at the north end of the Market Square with the names of the dead on bronze plaques.

This is an evocative view of a long-dead Chelsea, with sailing vessels moored along the Embankment, one apparently with a cargo of hay.

The garden directly below it is now a garden of remembrance to the dead of Dunkirk, Normandy, Korea, Malaysia and other campaigns.

It contained one chamber for the dead and was originally surrounded by a large oval mound; this was last recorded in the 19th century, but is now obliterated by man and time!

This photograph shows Mildenhall's war memorial, honouring the town's dead from the First World War. The statue is bright and new, and the grass is neatly trimmed.

In the background on Calton Hill stands the unfinished monument to the Scottish dead of the Napoleonic Wars. The monument was started in 1822, but the money ran out and it was never completed.

The names of the dead are not shown on the memorial, but are inscribed on rolls held in the Borough archives.

The inscription tells us that a Ruth Pierce asked heaven to strike her dead if she had lied about money.

Lying at the end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so

The second of the two major wars, the dead of which are commemorated in this memorial, would have still been fresh in the memories of the people sitting here. This scene remains unchanged today.

Beside the memorial to the dead of two world wars is a statue to another of Colne's brave sons, Wallace Hartley.

Motor vehicles are now in evidence, and the War Memorial has been built; it was erected to honour Bakewell's dead in the 1914-18 war.

The name Trethevy means 'place of the dead'.

The name Trethevy means 'place of the dead'.

Taking the form of a Celtic cross, it remembered the dead of the town during the First World War, which had ended just a year before.

Among the dead was the MacDonald chieftain MacIan of Glencoe, who was buried on the island of Eilean Munde.