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This view is now marred, to put it mildly, by the concrete eyesore of the Moat House Hotel, 14 storeys of 1960s aggression: but there are good views from the rooms, no doubt.

It is a pretty octagonal building with a dome surmounted by a figure of Justice; a cage underneath was used to hold the local felons to public ridicule, although by the time this photograph was taken,

Built in 1851 by the then owner of Hartwell House, Dr John Lee, a noted amateur Egyptologist and archaeologist, this building with Egyptian hieroglyphs has now been beautifully restored.

Almost all these fields, except those with the car-park and caravans, are now owned by the National Trust.

The small village of Leeds is dominated by the presence of its large romantic castle. The Castle is Norman, but there was an earlier Saxon castle on the site.

During the same period, annual tobacco imports through the docks rose from 349 tons in 1880 to 2278 in 1910, and by the mid 1920s the average was 24,000 tons a year.

This was converted to a tasteful dwelling during the 1990s by the Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust.

Dominating the village is the church of St Michael, restored in 1869 by the local benefactress Lady Rolle.

Steel and glass were used in the construction of these offices, opened by the Queen Mother in 1967.The complex includes the Town Hall, Law Courts, Police Headquarters and the Technical College, all

Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.

Two miles south-west of Michelham Priory, further downstream along the Cuckmere River, we reach Arlington, another scattered village of farmsteads bisected by the meandering river.

North-east of Guildford and now by-passed by the A3, Ripley has a long wide High Street and was full of coaching inns in earlier days.

It is interesting that the half-timbering is contemporary with the picture, and conceals the original structure (which has now been restored by the National Trust).

Zenon Vantini, the first manager of the North Euston Hotel, backed by the Rev John St Vincent Beechey, put forward the idea of a boarding school for boys, and by 1904 the school was flourishing, despite

The station is on the left, but is concealed by the distant shops.

Harlaxton Manor is now owned by the American University of Evansville.

Here we have a closer view of the quiet main street; note the sign of the Golden Cocker Café by the street lamp.

Its 16th-century church has the Eye of God on its church tower to protect the villagers against witchcraft, which was so genuinely feared by the parishioners of St Mary's.

The original helmet, found by the river Ribble in 1796, is in the British Museum.

Tommy Blumer built it for his fleet of buses, which was later taken over by the United Bus Company. He had been a sapper in the army in the First World War - hence the name.

On the right is the busy village store run by the Foxwell family, who only recently gave up the business.

All this is now operated by the local water company, diversifying from their usual pursuits.

Modernisation took place in 1955, financed by the Colfox Trust, when the number of units was increased to six.

They were the South Metropolitan District Schools, where over 1,500 pauper children from south London were sent, as well as any vagrant children spotted by the authorities.