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Oakham CC have a fine ground at the Lime Kilns Field, Brooke Road, which was extended to county size.

The old coaching inn, half way down Brook Street on the left, had the unusual name of the Farmer's Man.

This photo shows the stereotypical municipal park with its formal gardens, water features and children's playground.

Wallop means 'valley of the stream,' and if we look closely we can just see the Wallop brook on the left of the road.

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

Downstream beyond Marlow the Thames reaches Cookham, where it blunders about and divides into three channels before turning south by chalk cliffs.

Ten years and one world war later, time seems to have stood still in the town.

Bristol cigarettes and Brooke Bond tea could be purchased at the Post Office Stores, run by M S Beevers at the time of this photograph.

Its location at the entrance to Brook Lane is a mixed blessing.

We are standing on the small brick-parapeted bridge over the Walthambury Brook.

The Fighting Cocks Inn can be seen on our left, but the Hero of Inkerman was demolished to make way for the new by-pass, and was re- built further to the left.

Mr Brooks' grocery shop has been gone for many years now.

During and after the First World War Blandford became well-known as a military training area, with a large army base nearby.

Winsford's granite cross commemorates the dead of both World Wars.

Before the arrival of the LCC Harold Hill housing estate, Noak Hill was an isolated hamlet; however the thatched weather-boarded cottage on the right still remains to this day.

In all, with additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath

The rustic bridge parapets over the brook also look like John Hicks's work.

The rustic bridge parapets over the brook also look like John Hicks's work.

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.

The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water, and the village church is a charming medieval survival.

Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes.

In the middle of Great Whyte stands the 'dummy clock'.

Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.