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A boy runs across to meet his friend by the large green on the left. Perhaps they are going to meet some more friends and play a game of tag.

Teeth were also pulled, probably from the same chair and by the same technician. There was a permanent dentist's surgery in the base- ment of the Red Lion Hotel.

Its successor, pictured here, was built c1730, but was damaged by the weather and by a mine during the Second World War. It finally collapsed in the 1960s.

It was taken over by the Redland Group in 1958. Beare Green bricks form the unusual 'Brick Knot' sculpture that can be seen in the centre of Reigate.

Greyfriars Green is dominated by the spire of Christchurch (c1350), all that remains of a monastery established in 1234 and demolished in 1539.

By the 19th century the house had deteriorated, but Sir Thomas Acland, who preserved much of its surviving medieval decoration, restored it.

They were, of course, designed to make life easier when using transport of the four-legged variety, even though by the time this photograph was taken the motor car was beginning to make its presence felt

The church is believed to have been founded by the Knights Templar from Rothley.

This pavilion was built by the David Smith factory alongside the cricket pitch.

This view was taken looking north along the Broadway from the crossroads, showing the extent of the redevelopment carried out by the Onyx Property Investment Company over the two preceding decades and

It was a Royalist stronghold during the Civil War; it was attacked by the Roundheads and then 'slighted' (rendered unusable).

It was besieged and bombarded by Cromwell; destroyed in 1689 and subsequently rebuilt; garrisoned by Hanoverian troops in 1715; and partially dismantled in 1745 by the Jacobite Duchess of Perth to deny

Fittings from Hawkhill in Edinburgh were saved by the Scottish Georgian Society just two days before the building burnt down. Culdees Castle was demolished in 1967.

The body of the church is 14th century, but any patina of age was effectively neutralised by the over-restorations of 1849 and 1857.

Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening

Notice the two large lamps by the path. There were wards for the inmates, laundries, kitchens and other facilities normally associated with a workhouse.

The antiques shop was previously used by the Bronte Society as a museum from 1895. Books and postcards of the literary sisters are on sale at the Haworth Post Office.

Behind the photographer, Dame Alice Street passes the Harpur Almshouses, a long row of brick cottages in the Tudor style thought suitable for such buildings, erected by the Harpur Trust in 1806 but refronted

The castle passed into the hands of the Neville family, and in 1471 Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came here to be tutored by the Earl of Warwick.

It was painted by the artist Karl Wood in 1931 in a derelict condition; it is now converted to a private house.

The Abbot at Gloucester complained that the monks sent to the village became so debased by the life there that, on their return home, they would inevitably corrupt the other monks.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

In the form of a cross, it is built in the Corinthian style, and surmounted by the giant dome which rises on arches over the centre.

The towering chapel of this school dominates the landscape for miles around; its position is wonderful, high above where the South Downs are cut deep by the Adur valley on its way to the sea.