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Its location at the entrance to Brook Lane is a mixed blessing.

After a fire new premises were built on the site, called The Windle Brook.

Mr Brooks' grocery shop has been gone for many years now. The River Meon still threads its way through this delightful village to the sea.

The poet Rupert Brooke trained here during the First World War. In the later years of the last century Blandford became the delightful shopping centre it is today.

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

This village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

In all, with additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath

The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall. It pumped water from a spring in Hall Meadows.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water, and the village church is a charming medieval survival. It is wonderful that such places have survived so well into the modern age.

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.

This runs for 30 miles through the heart of Cheshire, and ends by the locks of Grindley Brook just on the border with Shropshire.

Few people realise that the culverted Bury Brook runs under the Great Whyte, as the Gas Board recently discovered by accidentally drilling through the roof!

Further south, the High Street becomes Brook Street as it heads towards the unromantically named Hog Dyke. To the right are the walls and gate piers of the Methodist Church built in 1874.

The growth is self-evident here, with Brooke House's massive V-shaped struts in the background (left) and the post office under construction.

The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.

Brook is still a beautiful village, despite being something of a dormitory for the expanding town of Ashford nearby. Here we see a group of picturesque old weatherboarded farm buildings.

Retailers listed as having businesses here in 1907 are Brook & Son, grocers and agents for W & A Gilbey Ltd, wine and spirit merchants; Goulden Bros, fruiterers and florists; Alfred Pickering, confectioner

Pictured here only two years after opening, the lake, created from a 'malarial bog' by damming the Nant Fawr Brook, proved extremely problematic.

The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.

Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton. The people of the Stone Age lived by the water.

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout.'

This view, actually on the main A36, looks across the viaduct over the Midford Brook back to the Viaduct Inn.

Whyte's high-class confectioners (left) is now Crocks. To the right is the red brick gabled London and Provincial Bank, and nearer to us is Mrs Carter's ladies' hairdresser's.

A blacksmith's forge used to stand beside this packhorse bridge spanning Winn Brook, one of eight bridges boasted by this tiny village. It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.