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Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

The £30,000 Wells House Hydro opened in May 1856.

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

Not far away is Charleston Manor, the remains of a late 12th-century hall house. There is also a tithe barn and a dovecote still housing pigeons.

The large gabled house on the left of the street, with the telephone box outside, is the village shop and post office, both of which have since closed.

On the south side of the street are several half-timbered houses of notable quality, with Shakespeare House and its prominent gable, and the Chequers Inn, both very evident.

He was born in Wotton House in 1620 and inherited it later in the century; he died in 1706 and was buried in the fine parish church, which is isolated in the fields north of the A25.

The buildings on the left survive, as does the church, although now converted to flats as Winslade House.

Beyond is Trinity House, the minister's house, probably also by Woodman.

During the floods of 1947, the River Ouse rose over the gardens of the twelve houses in River Terrace and drenched the ground floors.

The complex was purchased by Babergh District Council in 1991 and became William Wood House, sheltered housing, which was opened by Princess Diana in 1993.

In this picture the East End Post Office can be seen on the right, the one building in the row not faced with weatherboard.The small store facing the photographer also housed the Coastguard Reporting

The white building (right) was the village butcher's shop - joints of meat were hung from the trees; beyond it is the three-gabled Town House.

However, it was finally named Victoria Hall, and the large building now houses various local societies' functions.

On the south side of this view is the London House store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover and Son. Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop(centre).

Set in a large landscaped park, reworked by Capability Brown in the 1750s, the east parts and north fringes of which went for housing in the 1930s, it was designed by Sir James Thornhill who had to sue

The old centre of Chalfont St Peter has suffered greatly, by-passed too closely and swamped by housing estates, the houses steadily increasing in size before merging with the affluent 'Metroland

Proof of this was a very old vine found in the grounds of a house in the 1960s, but unfortunately it was removed by new tenants.

The annexe sideways to the road has gone, and the house standing back from the road has been replaced by a bungalow. One of the two houses on the right, Highfield View, now has a porch.

Next to the club, on the corner of the Parade and Watch House Lane, is the Watch House of HM Customs. This has played a very important part in the history of Cowes, and continues to do so.

In 1815, a club was founded in London at the Thatched House Tavern by 42 gentlemen engaged in salt-water yachting.

The site has now been redeveloped for housing. The Blue Idol is a Quaker Friends Meeting House and guesthouse which was converted for William Penn in 1691.

James Murray of Broughton established it in the 1760s as the estate village for Cally, his country house.

The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of