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This memorial to Admiral Blake stands in front of the Regency Market House. Erected in 1900, it reads: 'Robert Blake, born in this town 1598, died at sea 1657'.

Baked potatoes were even more popular with Londoners, and handcarts fitted with ovens and chimneys plied the streets offering inexpensive hot snacks.

Next to the front door on the left is a baking oven that projects outside the cottage from the ingle-nook fireplace.

Signs on the wall of the house on the left advertise Lyon's Tea, Red Bell Tobacco and Borwick's Baking Powder.

It was used to bake bread, then very much a staple of the diet.

To the left is the grey lias wall of Admiral Blake's home, Puriton Manor. The original house does not survive, but the great arched gateway does.

Denby Dale is perhaps most famous for its gargantuan meat and potato pies, first baked to celebrate the recovery of King George III from one of his many bouts of illness.

Baked potatoes were even more popular with Londoners, and handcarts fitted with ovens and chimneys plied the streets offering inexpensive hot snacks.

The front of Blake's has been replaced, with the door now to the right.

The slopes of Blake Rigg rise towards the left of the photograph.

The slopes of Blake Rigg rise towards the left of the photograph.

Vegetables would be grown mostly by the villagers themselves in their own back gardens; most would bake their own bread and cakes. Their lives went slowly on, in an undisturbed rustic idyll.

Even when this photograph was taken, freshly baked bread and locally delivered milk were the order of the day.

The women baked bread, washed clothes, used carved spoons made of sycamore wood (it did not stain), cared for children and eagerly awaited the weekly carrier's cart to replenish their stocks of candles

By 1900, the citizens had erected a statue in front of the Market Hall of the great Admiral Blake, who was born in Bridgwater in 1598.

In its heyday, The Bell had a tap-room, two parlours, three bedrooms, three attics, beer- and liquor-cellars, a bake-office and a brewery.

The cupola in the distance belongs to Blake Hall, part 18th-century but mostly of 1911.

Beyond are cottages which were at one time the parish poorhouse, where the worthy poor made lace and baked bread.

The ethos of the owners was to supply the public with old-fashioned home baking and cooking in a comfortable and pleasant environment.

We are east of Bognor Regis.The poet William Blake lived in the village for four years.The medieval church of St Mary can be seen in the background of the picture.

In 1768, Sir Francis Blake Delaval, canvassing for election as MP, and his agent Kellynge invited the Mayor and Corporation and the Colonel and Officers of a local billet to a grand dinner athte George

was taken, patrons at the Camberley Electric Theatre ((left) would have been thrilled by such silent epics of the screen as Bridal Chair, with its star Miriam J Sabbage, The Further Exploits of Sexton Blake

In 1800 he invited his poet friend William Blake to come and live in the village, where he stayed for four years. The medieval church of St Mary can be seen in the background of the picture.

The last one was recorded in 1908, and the curate of St James's Church in Blake Street, HIndpool (pictured here), with the backing of some local businessmen, provided a much-needed soup kitchen to alleviate