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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.

Visit today, and see that the pub has gone, and that offices and shops of little architectural merit have come to dominate the street scene.

There could even have been some Frith postcards in the rack; among many other things for sale are ice cream, Coca Cola, pork pies from Pork Farms of Nottingham, Kodak films, cigarettes, newspapers and

The car park has gone, and many of the buildings have also disappeared.

East Street used to lead from the Common Acre past a number of big houses. On the right, three dormers mark the roof of the Manse to the Congregational Church, built in 1780.

Smarden is an attractive Wealden village in H E Bates country, with a number of fine old timbered houses. At one time it had a substantial trade in linen and woollen goods.

A Roman settlement on Stane Street and the navigable River Arun. The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station. The 15th-century church is on the hillside.

This was the site of much activity, including horse fairs, which continued regularly until the mid-20th century. The Green is today architecturally unchanged from this photograph.

There were already several schools in the town when the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Belfast advertised the arrival of a new academy.

Its expenses were met by the subscriptions of the members, fees from letting others use the park, and an exhibition hall.

East of the Exe

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

Doncaster's electric street tramway opened on 2 June 1902; it operated fifteen open-top cars, each capable of carrying a total of 56 passengers.

This interior view of St Mary's Church looks east into the chancel past the central crossing under the tower.

The east end part of the quay faces northwards with views across the flat marshes to the sea beyond.

The sign tells us that Gisburn Road leads to Clitheroe, hub of the Pendle Forest area. Stone walls, finials, setts, dripstones and lintels characterise Chatburn and the neighbouring villages.

Ramsgate is the third in the trinity of Thanet holiday resorts; its attractions would have been familiar to the young Princess Victoria, who as a small girl stayed in a house near the bandstand on the