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It moved here to these new buildings on Derby Road (now called Back Lane) in 1859, having outgrown the original premises.

The route then heads east back to the Mendips to visit another celebrated tourist attraction, Wookey Hole.

Horley is now firmly back in Surrey, but for some years prior to 1974 it, along with Gatwick Airport, was within Sussex.

It is the wealth created by the years of shipping which has given Wisbech two of the most perfect Georgian streets in England - the Brinks on the banks of the River Nene.

Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

The hotel façade has not changed, but Boots have moved further along the High Street and the Halifax Bank has replaced Boots.

On the right is the elegant Georgian frontage of Lloyd's Bank, complete with a fanlight over the door and a decorated gable at the roofline.

The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.

The Red Lion dated back to at least 1792, when it was called Blackwater. It originally faced onto the lower part of Blackwater Street, which later became Lord Street.

Photographs taken before 1965 reveal it to have been a truly magnificent structure; documentary records indicate that it was built about 1600, though its predecessors can be tracked back as

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

The projecting section of promenade shown in both photographs is known as the Donkey Stand, because it was possible to take donkey rides along the sands from here as far as South Slip and back.

Once the Settle to Carlisle railway had opened, which ran to the east of Ingleton, Victorian entrepreneurs laid out the 4-mile walk along the banks of the River Twiss towards Pecca Falls, Hollybush

Unlike Staines on the north bank, the river plays no part in Egham's townscape. This view looks east along the High Street.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

Built on slightly higher land away from the river, it turns its back on it, and this view looks north-west along the High Street to the Church Street crossroads.

Back inthe Chess Valley we reach Latimer, a very pretty village with a triangular green and, uphill to the west, Latimer House.

Much has gone, including the old Rose and Crown, which was replaced around 1900 by the present mock timber-framed one set back from the road: a townscape disaster.

Dating back to the 13th century, the castle is one of the most impressive ruined fortresses in Scotland; the Douglas Tower took 36 years to build, and is thought to be the work of French masons because

Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.

We are now back at the junction with Hursley Road where Bournemouth Road becomes Winchester Road.

The rest have been replaced by the modern back wall of a stone clad Co-op supermarket. The cottages are clearly in a dilapidated condition in this 1950 view, but their loss is surely to be regretted.

Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.