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There used to be a horse fair here - the streets were blocked by straw bales to keep the animals in. The ancient market was restored in 1834; it was held every Friday.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Across the road, on the corner of Mersey Street, the Packet House Inn hints at the days when packet boats carried passengers along the Mersey to Liverpool.

The Georgian building on the left houses solicitors' offices. (Nick Thomas) Church Lane, viewed from Water Street. This is one of the pleasantest parts of the town.

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

There were pork butchers', egg shops, pawn shops, bric-a-brac and second-hand shops, and of course a public house on nearly every corner.

The Sessions House on William Brown Street is pictured here just three years after it opened. Designed by F & G Holme, its original purpose has now been forgotten.

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s. The Norman-style windows to the right date from 1863, when this wing became the Probate Registry Office.

The castle now houses the town and district museum.

After 1870 Currey produced his second master plan for the areas around the hamlet of Meads, this time for tree-lined streets of villas and houses in grounds that led to this western development being

The drive leads to the Tudor mansion, an E-plan house started in 1577 and set in a Tudor deer park; it was restored to Tudor appearance after Georgian alterations in the last century.

The churchyard is on the right behind the houses and shops; the one on the left has a mansard roof, the one on the right is now a hairdressers - 'Beyond the Fringe'.

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.

The Hen and Chickens, now a Courage house, has a 17th-century timber- framed central section, and all the elevations are now white-painted.

Moving west, the route passes through Merstham, a village of two parts: the older part lies west of the railway, and to its east is a large former London County Council housing estate of the 1950s

Edwin James Trendell, who had presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town to commemorate her 1887 Golden Jubilee, lived in Abbey House, and laid out its grounds, Abbey Gardens, in the 1880s.

A magnificent palm house, lake and conservatory were also part of this lovely park.

In the last forty or so years, very little has changed in the High Street, although the recently built premises of the Midland Bank (right) has now become a private house.

Next door to the church stood the Robin Hood and Little John public house. This was de-licensed in 1948, and is now home to the Taggert Gallery and Tile Museum.

This large, timber-framed house was built around 1595 by the wealthy Dorrington family.

These buildings give a cottagy feel to what is essentially a commercial street, as we can see from the buildings opposite - they house a shop, a pub and the outbuildings of a brewery.

Many people approached their houses by grass tracks, and drew water from a well or carried buckets to a standpipe (sometimes a half-mile away); they cooked by paraffin or coal and lit their homes