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This photograph, taken shortly after the war, shows the Moot Hall in a rather sorry state of repair.

The upstairs bay window of the shop on the left is no longer to be seen, as the façade has been rebuilt. It belonged to Tower's, who were boot makers.

The car on the left obscures what was the front window of the Daventry Weekly Express office (or The Gusher, as it is affectionately known by the locals).

The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

Timber from Scandinavia, with a builder's merchant's lorry and cranes, stand on the Quay beside 1864-built Pier Terrace (right).

The late Victorian era saw the development of shopping parades.

The late Victorian era saw the development of shopping parades.

South of Farnham, on the greensand heathland, there are two famous and immensely popular lakes, Frensham Great Pond and Frensham Little Pond.

Further downstream and opposite Hampton Court, Molesey Lock is photographed from Riverbank, the busy A3050 along the Surrey bank of the River Thames.

These jettied houses (with the first floor projecting and on brackets) and the building to the left of them, Helensbourne, are 16th- century and timber-framed beneath the render.

The Checker and the upper floor of the old bakehouse are now occupied by the Unicorn Theatre, opened in 1953 - it has a version of a Shakespearian-period stage.

Over 150 years ago, Church Street was the main way out of the town to Chatburn. Dates can be seen on house frontages - one drainpipe bears the date 1757.

Kinmel Hall stands on a site said to date back to 1311, but this present country house emerged from the ashes of a former mansion destroyed by fire in 1848.

There is a tendency to see the development of the London suburbs only in terms of public transport, but the motorcar proved increasingly important from this period.

A Tudor fort sitting on top of Beblowe Crag, Lindisfarne was raised for defence against the Scots.

This was the retail hub of the town, with each blind shadowing a shop window on the sunny northern side of the exceptionally wide street.

The Castle and Ball Hotel, an old established commercial hotel and posting house on the north side of the High Street, has a distinctive tile-hung front with pierced barge-boards decorating

In the late 15th century the Cheynes built the first part of the house, the hall, tower and the rest of the west range in the distance, an amorphous shape in brick under all the ivy, but

Little Chalfont, a name given the area by developers in the 1920s, grew up around Chalfont Road Station on the Metropolitan Line which opened in 1889, with a branch to Chesham opening the following year

Given a decade of fresh ideas (see L211008 on the previous pages), the area around Leighton Buzzard's 15th-century Market Cross is once again a focal point and meeting place.

Pitsea Hall Island—to the left of the creek—has a complex history. Originally pasture and arable land, it was taken over by British Explosives Ltd in 1890.

The M25 is still a pipe dream in the minds of the planners, but already the town has begun to develop.

By far the most impressive building in the parish, the Tudor mansion, with its octagonal wing turrets and a 50 acre park landscaped by Humphrey Repton in 1790, was the result of the redevelopment of a

The White Hart is shown on a town map of 1839 and is likely to be 15th-century in origin.