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To the left is Ketnor, Luccombe Post Office, a late 17th-century house with a good external stack. Ketnor is the name of former owners of the shop, and the name board survives today.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

Nearly 300 houses and shops were damaged, some so badly they had to be demolished. This picture shows the new church.

The house itself ceased to be inhabited in 1934, but in recent years it has been renovated back to its former glory.

The little cabmen's shelter at the side of the bar is no longer there.To the rear right of the bar we can see the turret on the roof of the Minster Chapter House.

This must be one of the most attractive villages in Surrey, with its large, sloping triangular green surrounded by good houses.

Alderman Cunliffe OBE JP purchased the Manor House estate and gave it to the Corporation, but the Great War interrupted plans for development.

Ahead, just left of centre, is the bathing place, and straight ahead are the houses in Melford Road. The bridge has since been replaced, but part of the brick wall to the right remains.

To the right are the houses of Stour and Cross Streets.

A new estate of housing also now replaces the post office and shop on the left so that this view is very much altered.

The gardens are now magnificent and the house contains a marvellous collection of paintings and furniture.

The road beside St Paul's Church has been widened, and in the process the pub has gone, and so have all the terraced houses that can be seen beyond.

The best house in this view is the one with the diagonal chimneystacks, The Grove: it is Tudor, with an 18th-century pink-washed facade and a superb Queen Anne door hood.

Beyond is Sutton's Seeds and several houses, all now demolished.

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

Several early 19th- century houses group around The Green, and in the mid l9th century the village was described as large.

How fitting it is to view the cathedral from the bishop's garden: the Gothic foliage carvings in the chapter house are justly famous.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

Two ox heads above granite pillars on the left indicate the Market House entrance, erected in 1840 for meat, poultry and butter.

On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen

But the Post Office still occupies this same house, even if it is much modernised and extended. Sadly, the little circle of grass has long since fallen victim to the demands of modern traffic.