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St Mary Street is one of the city's main thoroughfares, where shoppers and visitors could find the finest hotels, theatres and department stores, all built in a grandiose manner.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.The Dicker, behind the brick wall and trees beyond the pub, is a rather odd-looking mansion, built by Horatio William

There are 4 floors, 13 doors on every floor, 13 fireplaces, 52 stairs and 52 windows - hence its new name (after 1933) of the Pack of Cards Hotel.

Before this date, and even in medieval times, the village had at least two ale houses. The inn has beautiful gardens, and a putting green.

Now a part of Scottish Courage, Georges' Bitter Ale is still on sale, though it is unusual to find it outside the West Country or Southeast Wales.

This rather imposing white- painted late 18th- or early 19th-century brick-faced pub under a slated roof is set back from the main village street, selling Shipstones Ales from a local Nottingham

Its ales can be tasted in pubs across the south of England.

Perhaps the price of ale rose too high, or perhaps it was just that too many travellers took advantage of this generosity. Whatever the reason, the flagon mysteriously disappeared in the 1800s!

The inn sign advertises Melbourns Fine Ales from a Stamford brewery no longer brewing, but retaining a number of tied houses supplied by Samuel Smith Old Brewery at Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

Is the old chap (right) on his way to the Bull Inn for a pint of local ale or cider?

The tall building beyond survives as The Stage pub, while on the right the 1928 faience-fronted Home Brewed Ales pub, The Fox, also survives, but renamed Number Ten.

The Black Lion hotel is over 400 years old; although holy water is available from the spring in the shrine of Our Lady, even visiting clergy have been known to enjoy a chat over a glass of ale in this

The columns on the left are on the front of the Market Hall below the old court house. Next door to the Bear Hotel is Kirkland's the chemist's.

This old shepherd, plodding on to Walsingham market, has been enjoying a glass of ale in the White Hart. His sheep have just been sheared, and are watched over by his dog in the foreground.

In the background a horse-drawn cart delivers ales and beers, and K Boots and Shoes are sold at the corner shop in the background.

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.

Bunting's once owned many pubs in the area, and distributed its ales far and wide.

In the background a horse-drawn cart delivers ales and beers, and K Boots and Shoes are sold at the corner shop in the background.

An off- licence offers Phipps ales and stout, and at the end of the row, as if anticipating further expansion, there is a small shop.

An off- licence offers Phipps ales and stout, and at the end of the row, as if anticipating further expansion, there is a small shop.

The Hole's Ales advertising sign on the wall has gone, and the beer being advertised on the hanging sign is now Carling.

At the time of this photograph, Thomas Bathgate was landlord of the Chequers, serving Style and Winch ales.

It was here that Charles Dickens wrote and set some of 'The Pickwick Papers', and where the 'clean and commodious ale-house' to which Mr Tuppence retried from the world could be found.

An 18th-century house incorporating Trowell Stores (advertising Brooke Bond Tea) and the White Horse Inn selling Tolly ales and stout face the square.