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Most of the buildings have gone, and on the site of the clock tower there is now a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities.

Henry Bell, who became a Provost of the burgh, designed and built the steamboat 'Comet'; an obelisk to him stands on the Esplanade, and the flywheel from the 'Comet' is preserved in Hermitage Park.

It looks like a good solid Silver Cross pram parked outside the tobac- conist's on the left of our photograph.

The parked lorry belongs to Jones & Co, Corn and Seed Merchant; perhaps it is more than mere coincidence that a transport café is just across the road.

This area is now the main car park for visitors. One of the gondolas from the big wheel at Blackpool ended its life as a cafe here, and stood just to the right of our picture.

Tudor dream; but his buildings have survived the building of the New Town, and his name is preserved in Howard Crescent, where examples of his residential development can still be seen, and in Howard Park

This shopping centre holds three large stores, over 40 shops and parking for 800 cars. Yet it has been slipped in behind the frontage of the High Street without any disturbance.

Wells furnishers were related to the brewing family of the same name; the Green Chair sign over the shop is intended as a hark back to the craftsman guilds of medieval times.

When this area became a tortuous gyratory system, she was shifted to Howard Park.

The small parking strip adjoining the Clock Tower contains two motor taxis, a pony trap, a landau and an open omnibus drawn by two horses happily munching away in their nosebags.

One of the sails from this impressive structure was blown off and landed in the park during Windy Sunday, 24 March 1895, two years later the rest of the sails were removed.

Parts of the Cloth Hall, the clock and bell tower, were re-erected as a shelter in Ravensknowle Park.

This view looks along the towpath towards Park Street bridge. The Nestle's factory is just out of sight on the right. The boys are fishing from a miniature wharf which still survives.

Away to the right are the south lodges to Moor Park, a pair of small lodges linked by a Tuscan Doric arch. From this viewpoint these are now hidden by young oaks.

In the foreground is the church primary school, parts of which date back to 1853, now much extended.

Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past

Nearby are Goodwood House and Park, built in 1660 and greatly extended in 1760. It is The Duke of Richmond's estate, and has fine art collections.

Here we see Park Street in the days of horse-drawn transport. Half-way up the street is what appears to be a water-cart on damping-down duty.

In the foreground there appears to be an event at the YMCA, and the general view over the municipal park shows another gathering in the gardens, perhaps related to the same event.

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre. The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.

In the late 1950s all this area was cleared to build a multi-storey car park.

You could be forgiven for thinking Stoke Park looks vaguely like Washington's White House, for there is an American connection.

This is still very much the age of the bicycle, as we can see from all those parked two-wheelers.

Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor. The pavement is up and men are busy in front of Burden's shop.