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The driver climbing out of his Morris 8 Series E is parked outside one of the many cafes in Baldock Street (centre right) - this one used to be the Golden Boot public house and sported a giant hanging

Parking problems did not exist here in these days in the High Street.

Built to link the Promenade to the attractions of Princes Park, the doubly-named bridge rests on two artificial islands in the Marine Lake.

Weighing machines like this one were once common, and an example can be seen in Hitchin Museum in Paynes Park.

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

Around the tower is parked a group of typical 1960s cars - two Morris Minors (a Traveller and a saloon), a Mini- van, a Morris Oxford Farina and a Standard Pennant.

The main road (A272) ran through Cuckfield, and turns right at the junction beyond the parked car, whilst the minor northbound road to Whitemans Green continues into the distance up the hill.

He succeeded Alderman Thomas Miller as lord of the manor in 1865, and lived at Singleton Park. He had a great interest in land drainage, and he owned valuable antiques.

There were three pubs - the Royal Oak and the King's Head on the High Street, roughly where their namesakes are today, and the Clarence Arms (now the Park Hotel) on Park Road.

It began a new life as Wat Tyler Country Park in 1984.

The closest parked cars on each side are Humbers, with a Riley 9 further along the north side of the street (centre).

Further lakes and streams flow through the grounds of The Grove, which was once a private house, but is now a delightful public park.

It was renovated in 1984 and still stands, but it is well-hidden in woodland at Beckett's Park in Headingley.

At the top of the glen a pioneer amusement park was established from 1887, when the switchback railway from the Saltaire Exhibition was moved up the hill.

Here we see two horse-drawn narrow boats, the 'Linnet' and the 'Evelyn', belonging to George Garside, at the attractively sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

The lower buildings in front of the Metropole flank Regency Square which was laid out in 1818 and is now host to an underground car park. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

East of the park is the village, a figure of eight of winding lanes. This view looks east along Ashby Road to the small green at its junction with Station Road and High Street (to the right).

The car park has gone, and many of the buildings have also disappeared.

On the right, three dormers mark the roof of the Manse to the Congregational Church, built in 1780. In foreground right, Beckett House, now York House, retains its fine-jointed Georgian brickwork.

An Austin 7 Tourer (left) is parked in front of the Morris Commercial delivery van.

The closest parked cars on each side are Humbers, with a Riley 9 further along the north side of the street (centre).

Dating from 1712 and set in a landscaped park, it was built for the then Secretary to the Treasury, William Lowndes.

On the left the windows facing the camera to the right of the telegraph pole belong to Park House Farm, its brick front concealing a good timber frame; its barns and farm buildings out of view