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Bartholomew Street, on the southern side of the town centre, was originally called West Street. This general view shows the street about 40 years ago.

The magnificent west front of Winchester Cathedral is seen here from its former burial ground. The beautifully-decorated Winchester Bible can be seen in the Cathedral Library.

The Bere Stream, seen looking eastwards from Southbrook Bridge, towards Bedford and Jesty's watercress beds with a glimpse of Woodbury Hill (top left).

This viaduct was constructed of local stone in 1867 for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company; the line opened in 1870 and closed in the 1960s.

The church of St Lawrence has twin rood-stair turrets – these are usually found in much larger churches, such as St Mary's, Bury St Edmunds. The south porch dates from 1466.

The first part of Newtown was built as workers` cottages for the employees of the ironworks, and the other section was for workers in the brick works.

The view has survived the two world wars that changed our way of life forever. Could it be that the lack of change in this view brings with it all that we desire in village life?

To the west of the A229 is Kent's most famous Neolithic burial chamber. The capstone measures 13 feet by 9 feet, and the earthen mound, which covered the stones, was 170 feet long.

The house on the right with the gate was called Inwood House after the several generations of the Inwood family who came from nearby Neatham.

We are looking towards Ouse Bridge with South Esplanade on the right.The view has remained virtually the same, except for the difference in the river traffic and a change of use for some of the

We are looking towards Ouse Bridge with South Esplanade on the right.The view has remained virtually the same, except for the difference in the river traffic and a change of use for some of the

This area has always been of danger to shipping.

Pooley Hall was built by Thomas Cockayne between 1506 and 1509 on the site of a much older house.

In a picturesque setting of mature trees and a grassy churchyard, the building is in the main of the 14th century, apart from its two-bay 13th- century nave arcade.

At the end of 1943, the whole area was requisitioned by the military, and US forces practised the D-Day landings.

With parts thought to date from 1469, when the original hall was built by Piers Warburton, the present building largely dates from the 1830s and 1840s, and is considered an important example of the Victorian-Jacobean

Sandbach's Square is the scene, each May, of an Elizabethan market held to commemorate the original market charter presented to the town in the 1500s.

The mill house survives just out of picture to the right, but of the mill there is virtually no trace.

This photograph shows Pier Gap prior to the building of the 'Venetian Bridge'.

This scene remains virtually unchanged today, but it has been cut off from the High Street by an ugly ring road.

This scene remains virtually unchanged today, but it has been cut off from the High Street by an ugly ring road.

In later years it was the headquarters of Ambrose Stapleton, vicar and leader of the local smuggling gang. It is reputed to have secret rooms and passageways where contraband was

Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its bad treatment of the children who worked there. Originally, it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.

Bendlowes held various official posts under the Tudor monarchs, some of whom had to turn a blind eye to his Catholicism. The Cottage is one of several almshouses he endowed.