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Behind the houses was Raby Park, an imposing housing development stimulated by the arrival of the railway.

On the left is Porch House, a heavily-restored 16th-century house, now a bank, with the pavement passing through its ground floor.

The carrier's wagon outside the post office gives an old-fashioned view to this 1950s view - but milk floats and rag and bone carts were also still horse-drawn well into the late 1950s.

The 1905 primary school is on the left beside the Ford Consul, next to a pair of 1920s brick houses.

The public house has long been a vital constituent of city life. Here customers could relax after the day's toil with a tankard of porter.

This beautiful house would seem to be such an important asset to the village, but like so many others, all trace of it has now gone.

One of the first buildings that the visitor will meet is the picturesque 15th-century thatched Axe and Compasses public house (centre).

The Cock public house (left) stands at the corner of Church Lane opposite Braggs Lane. The Cock is now a particularly fine restaurant, and has been awarded recognition by Les Routiers.

The baths were situated just to the north of the Boat House, where Gayton Sands Nature Reserve car park now stands. The Boat House is now an inn and restaurant.

The fine avenue of box trees was removed - box wood was in great demand by the Luton hat makers for use as blocking moulds - and houses and shops were built.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west

forest.There were two brick works in the village.A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan church.The scene has now altered: the left- hand side of the road has been developed with houses

Next to the small 15th-century parish church, out of view to the right, is Dodington Hall, a long Elizabethan manor house of 1581.

here were many public houses and inns in the town.

Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

This view looks north-east along the A283 past its junction with Church Lane on the right in front of White Horse Cottage, whose chimney stack is here covered in creeper.

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Belmont is a Georgian house, and the gatehouse is an early Victorian house sited to the rear of Belmont. The village is noted for trug manufacture at a local steamed wood works.

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique country house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

The original house was built about 1490, and remained in the Moreton family for many years. Later it was home to the Nowells and then the Taylors.

Originally designed in 1767 by Robert Adam for the 3rd Earl of Bute, this unique counrty house was reconstructed in 1843 after a fire in which little of the original building was left untouched.

This is the grandest house in Epsom. It was originally built in the 17th century for Richard Evelyn, the brother of the diarist, and remodelled in stone for Lord Baltimore.

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.