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This shows the view looking back down High Street towards Boutport Street at the bottom. Butchers Row is on the left. The Sydney Harper building is now a travel agent.

The local policeman appears somewhat under-employed as he directs a single car travelling down Boutport Street towards The Square.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The palace is thought to have been burnt down accidently in 1746 by General Hawley's troops.

Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle. The mill closed in 1930 and lay derelict until 1977.

This view looks south-west down Loxwood Road towards the parish church, whose spire can just be seen amid the trees behind the last chimney-stack.

A toboggan ride also careered down the side of the glen, but it was closed in 1900 after an accident.

Situated in Market Street and close to Apiary Gate, the church design echoes that of Non-conformist chapels up and down the country.

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

The original village was burnt down in the 1600s and had to be completely rebuilt.

In the 1920s and 30s Walter Collins printed a well-known series of sepia postcards of the town.

An interesting balcony has steps down to the garden, where leisure furniture and croquet hoops indicate a relaxed way of life. A motor launch is tied up at the private mooring.

By 1819 the designer John Rennie had constructed a canal from Kendal in the north down to Wigan, a canal remarkable for the ingenuity of its design.

Monk's Buildings 1894 From Angmering we head north across the Downs to Storrington, now a large village that started its expansion in late Victorian and Edwardian times.

of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

This view looks south down the High Street from near High Bridge. The 11th-century tower of St Mary le Wigford church peers out amid the later commercial architecture.

The old stump of this tree known as Merlin's Oak is still kept in the town's civic hall.

The spire was struck by lightning in 1854 and the steeple had to be pulled down, but all was restored and the church extended in 1882.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

The recent news is that spa water has been found about six hundred feet down, and the Golf Hotel is about to resurrect the spa baths sometime during 2005.

Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.