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Immediately next to top church on the left is the Co-op Emporium, and facing each other across the street are departments of F W Cook Ltd, who were drapers, china and glass dealers, and house furnishers

This view is of Pirbright Lock, No 15; we are looking past the lock keeper's cottage (then a café, now a private house) to the girder bridge across the canal.

The golf club house, a rather distinguished Lutyens-esque Surrey vernacular revival building, has expanses of tiled roofs and a rather grand entrance bay with golden sandstone dressings.

The cottage with the smoking chimney was rebuilt in about 1910, and houses the Clifton Hampden Post Office and General Stores.

Little survives on the left today apart from the two gables of No 3, a 15th-century house, partly hidden by the horse-less cart.

Certainly it was not a long gallery in the Tudor country house sense.

by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more Moderne-style Timothy Whites building adjacent to it, with the Pearl Assurance above (now Cargo House

The gable end (top right) housed William Dixon's bakery.

Many of Shaw`s sturdy stone terraced houses had no bathrooms, and a tin bath is on sale on the left. Shop signs have been made with pride.

Pevsner rightly refers to the house (extreme left) as the finest of its date in the county, designed by William Smith of Warwick in 1697 for Sir Roger Cave.

But erosion of the coastline prompted the demolition with gunpowder of the church in 1809; the towers, known as the Two Sisters, were sold to Trinity House, who restored them as a navigational aid.

Our tour starts south of the River Ouse in the area developed by King Edward the Elder in AD919; it was defended by the King's Ditch, some of which still remains after all these centuries.

Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and we can also see the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

A magnificent palm house, lake and conservatory were also part of this lovely park. Over 60,000 people turned up to see it opened on 23 October 1857.

This area is now developed with modern housing on the left, but in 1904 he had a clear view of the 1860s Endowed School.

It is a curious contrast of building styles, ranging from the fine thatched stone house dated 1609 in the distance to the mundane brick of John Manners Ltd, now an engineering supplies store.

For a long time some residents there claimed that their house was the original Dracula location. It was not. Stoker stayed at 6 Royal Crescent.

The castle started out as a manor house for the bishops of Chichester, but in 1377 Bishop Rede was given a licence to crenellate (that is, make a castle) to protect the Arun gap from possible French

Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside. Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds. We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop.

The public infirmary, with just twelve beds, was established in 1752 in a house in Withy Grove, but was replaced by a 80-bed hospital in Piccadilly in 1755, where it remained for over 150 years.

CLIMBING CAREFULLY up the branching sycamore, a group of pensioners investigated the tree house.

The Broadway was originally flanked on its eastern side by the extensive garden of Arnolds, whilst opposite was a mixture of residential houses whose large rear gardens stretched down a rather

There is the modern settlement by the Ilford Works, two communities either side of the Mobberley Brook, and a cluster of houses by the Bird in Hand.

The town is renowned for the number and quality of its historic houses, and is blessed with an ancient abbey, founded by William d'Albini in 1107.