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This is the River Deben, viewed from near the Sailing Club House looking downstream towards White House; Waldringfield is to the right and Petistree Hall, in Sutton, is over to the left.

The ancient Market Cross with its sundial dominates the High Street in Barlborough, opposite the Rose and Crown public house, which is on the right of this 50s photograph.

Tattershall has lost its railway, but it still has its castle, and Tom Thumb's house is still on top of a house on the left of the market place.

The great house was New Place; it has now been converted into cottages. It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

The ducks still paddle on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office and Stores (centre) is just a house now.

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

Built between 1881 and 1882, these eight large houses were known as Granville Terrace. In 1897, a Mr Robert Stacey bought the first five houses and converted them into the Hotel Saint Cloud.

The old school and the Usher's House (demolished in 1952) are on the right of the large tree near the church.

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel. Indeed, there are some fine Georgian houses, particularly on the east side near the good parish church.

In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.

Village green, church and public house are all in close proximity, but the village atmosphere in Toddington was already under threat at the time of this photograph.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th- century rectory and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality set behind the low wall on the left of the photo- graph.

On the left, the second house with the lower roof has been demolished.

Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

The builder also worked on sculptures at the Houses of Parliament and Harewood House.

Formerly a theological training college, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

Viewed from the Close and looking East, the room with the large window over the Gate was a chapel belonging to Malmesbury House, the front of which can be seen to the left of the picture.

Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed. The houses on the left, built 1911-18, were to be the start of The Netherlands.

Originally it stood in the grounds of nearby Petersfield House, and was given to the town when the house was destroyed in the 18th century.

The ruins are now part of a private house. Also in the village near the waterfall is Holy Trinity church, restored in 1878. A 17th-century manor house completes the idyllic