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Liphook expanded as a village thanks to the London to Portsmouth road and the arrival of the railway in 1859.

Further development of the town meant further conversion of houses into shops. Note that Smith Bradbeers has moved to this corner, from Market Street (see page 25).

Moving south we cross the River Ivel by the Girtford Bridge to reach the town of Sandy on the Great North Road, the A1.

Its church houses a superb collection of monuments to the 17th- and 18th-century Dormer family.

It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town. Its broad High Street has a pleasing mixture of half-timbered buildings and elegant Regency houses.

Although Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall dominates the scene, it is the small round building almost in the middle of our picture that intrigues me.

The building seen here is properly called the Royal Free Museum & Library; it opened on 9 January 1850, and was the first unconditionally free municipal public library in the United Kingdom.

Sailors viewing them from off the coast at West Bay dubbed them `the Cow and Calf`.

The gardens are on the right of the picture; together with the Imperial Gardens, they testify to Cheltenham's love of flowers. The rotunda (now occupied by a bank) can be seen on the left.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

The centre of this picturesque north Hampshire village has changed little since the 1950s, though today there are usually more cars seen in the vicinity of the church.

The village was developed by Mr McDougall of the flour company at the end of the 19th century as part of his estate, and Fairbourne has become a popular destination for holidaymakers from the Midlands

The gardens were created in 1897, one of several physical expressions of civic pride engendered by economic confidence and prosperity in the town, and due undoubtedly to the benefits of industrial and

Timothy Whites, the chemist, was a familiar sight in post-war Wales and is a conspicuous business on the Square.

Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word 'wudmeresthorn', meaning 'thornbush by the boundary of the wood', and was mentioned in the Domesday

The church of All Saints at the east end of the village began as a chapel in 1847, increasing in size fifty years later.

The village of West Retford, with its own medieval parish church, St Michael's, lies on the west bank of the River Idle, and has long been absorbed into the town.

Just north of Richmond are the remains of this old Norman castle. Inside the keep, the massive fireplaces needed to keep this rather desolate monument warm can still be seen.

Move on 52 years from the last photograph, turn right-angles to your right, and the stalls are still the same but the car is making its presence felt.

This side of the gateway, rebuilt around 1450, is plainer than the market place facade.

A little north of the High Street Junction, off Abingdon Road, is Gravel Lane, which has a number of farm buildings on each side at its west end.

Slaidburn nestles in a hollow with higher ground around it.As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

The 13th-century church with its 15th-century tower stands on the north side of the square.

One of the most picturesque - and most photographed - rows of cottages in the Cotswolds, Arlington Row's first function was a barn.