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Leading up Pier Avenue from the Marine Parade corner, the first pair of houses on the left, known as Clarence Villas, was built in 1874.

Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria’s realm.

Here we see the great castle-like north- east corner tower and, to the right, the Great Hall’s oriel bay window and the (now glazed) cupola to vent the hall’s former open fire.

This remote spot in the far south-west corner of Britain has played a major role in world communications and commerce.

The whole building is L-shaped with the jettied upper storey coming round the corner, and by looking at the roof line we can see that the original building was added to later.

However, that King Charles House is round the corner on New Street. But it does bear the same date - 1577 - so perhaps both were part of the same building.

Lloyds Bank, on the right, is on the corner of Market Street. The policeman, possibly on traffic duty, is talking to a man whose cap and breeches suggest a chauffeur or AA patrolman.

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

Across the road - and stretching down to the bridge - were two inns fused together, the Lion and the Hart; and on the far corner of Springfield Road - where Next now is - was the Crown.

Also lost during the town centre development was the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which had stood on the corner of the Parade and Newhall Street.

The first cinema stood at the corner between Chapel Street and Swan Street - in fact, the demolition of the Swan public house made way for the Electric Theatre.