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At the time of writing, this remarkable building is visually threatened by a proposal to build an estate of run-of-the-mill houses and flats on the redundant RAF Stanmore, immediately to the west of the

In the late 1890s, the Black Lion public house was extensively altered and restored by Mr Glasscock; by removing the plaster and exposing the windows, he attempted to return the building to its original

The site of the annual horse fair up to the early 1900s, it is named after the Bell public house, which stood opposite the sack hoist at the maltings.

This a row of typical seaside hotels and boarding houses, and it still looks the same.

The Prince Albert public house is at the end of the road, hidden by trees.

There was a bakery by the mill house. The mill is now being restored by its owner. Iron electricity poles line the road; they are of a type only seen in this part of Sussex.

The house itself was now a café/restaurant.

It was here that Charles Dickens wrote and set some of 'The Pickwick Papers', and where the 'clean and commodious ale-house' to which Mr Tuppence retried from the world could be found.

Both horse and cart and motor car are parked outside Wealden Hall House; at the time of the photograph it was trading as the Post Office, and advertising itself as selling 'Drapery, Outfitting, Grocery

You can see the Roman remains of Olicana in both the Manor House Museum next to the parish church, and in the Skipton Museum.

Behind this fake Tudor facade of the late 19th century is a house built 400 years earlier for a wool merchant who became mayor of the city.

From medieval times onwards, almshouses were established to house poor families. Those built for the poor of Saltwood can be seen stretching back from the unusual and attractive village hall.

The Reader's House c1965 The sign on the wall indicates a right of way through to the courtyard of the Bull Hotel.

The photograph shows one of several good 18th-century brick houses to be found in the village.

The square and its side streets are full of fine old houses and shops, along with exceptional Georgian properties.

This shop, in Manchester House, also acted as a registry office for those seeking domestic servants.

The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder's offices, dates from around the same time.

village, and at the west end, on the corner of Wood Lane, is the White Friars Hotel; we see it here from Wood Lane, with the main road passing between the creeper-clad hotel and the rendered house

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

Its good timber-framed house behind remains; it is currently awaiting repair (October 2001).

Many of the old houses were weaver's cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving was the major industry in the area.

The castle started out as a manor house for the bishops of Chichester, but in 1377 Bishop Rede was given a licence to crenellate (that is, make a castle) to protect the Arun gap from possible French attack

However, look a little closer and you can pick out a few subtle changes.The white cottage on the right of the High Street is now the premises of an estate agent, and the ivy which covers the house

The Art Gallery (1905) also housed a museum of antiquities on its ground floor.