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Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house. There were once 2,500 cabinet making shops in London, many employing children.

Later the Town Library, belonging to the Corporation - formed in the 17th and 18th centuries - was housed here.

The Lighthouse was built by Trinity House on Anvil Point between 1880 and 1882, to fill the perilous gap between the rocks on Portland and the next cluster around the Isle of Wight.

Miss Moxon would entertain Sunday schools from the Manchester slums in her garden at West Bank, and in the Second World War would always open her house to the evacuees no one else wanted.

The view looks westwards from the foothills of Ridge Cliff to Seatown hamlet (centre left) and Mill House and Mill Lane (lower right), which was concrete-covered in the Second World War to enable the large-scale

It opened in 1884, and Dormans Park was laid out with houses in treed plots - the roads are still gravelled.

The building still houses a shop, the Village Stores and Post Office, but the pillar box (in use in this view) has been moved to the right-hand side of the shop front.

Harvey's is now House of Fraser with a large modern addition fronting North Street, and the restaurant is now French and classier, but at least this archetypal 1950s-designed roof garden is intact.

As with many other villages in Surrey, the shops have either become houses (the one on the left with the blinds is now The Old Bakery), or secondary commercial premises - the post office on the right

The trees have now gone, and the Cedar Hotel (left), one of the former coaching inns, is now the Cedar House Gallery; the Snack Bar Café (centre right) is a car dealer today.

Off Church Lane to the right is Amport House, built in 1857, now the Forces Chaplains College, with Lutyens terraces planted by Jekyll.

Jetty is in the foreground, dating in its present state from 1850; it is on the site of Lyme's first early medieval harbour, which was washed away on 11 November 1377 with the loss of 77 houses

The route begins at Nunnery House, a stately mansion built in about 1740 by Henry Aglionby on the site of an ancient Benedictine convent, hence the romantically named 'Nunnery Walks'.

There has been change here, with development on both sides of the road, though the white building in the centre and the terrace of houses remain.

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

The buildings in the market place are typical three-storey houses with shops underneath. Most are family-owned, supplemented by more well-known names such as Boots (left).

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly

This old community, and the one at Felday, were joined together into the village of Holmbury St Mary in 1879,when wealthy Victorians popularised them and built large houses in the surrounding pine forests

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

In Church Road there are some older houses and the parish church; the south churchyard boundary runs along Church Lane to the left.

Attridge's (right) is now Grendon Stores, and the plot in the foreground now has a 1980s house, a better design than the dull bungalows on the left of about 1960.

Behind it is the Victorian village school, now a house. Behind the photographer on the left is a good timber-framed thatched cottage.

The tranquil scene captured here reminds us how large-scale housing development in the past few decades has changed the nature of so many former villages.

In 1929 its population was 129, in the 1940s it was 500, and in 1998 it was 4,500, with over 1,700 houses.