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The first two shops in the next building were owned by Arthur Brook, glass and china dealer. Agricultural implements are laid out for sale - it is Saturday, market day.

By the time it was bought by Sir George Samuel Brooke Pechell in 1867, it had become Alton House. The family remained here for about 30 years before moving to Culverton House.

In front of the high altar is a brass to John Brooke and his wife Johanna. She was the daughter of Richard Amerycke, collector for Customs and patron of John Cabot.

In the chapter house is the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.

Brooke Cottage was the place to visit for parents and children alike if they had a sweet tooth, for it was formerly the village sweet shop and store. Next door there was a shoe shop and cobbler's.

This charmingly-situated little watering-place lies in a sheltered valley, and its garden-girt villas are further beautified by a sparkling brook, spanned by numerous rustic bridges.

Note the Brooke Bond Tea advertisement – its packets included picture cards, collected eagerly by myself and numerous other children in the 1950s.

The Rising Sun pub (right) still stands alongside the Allen at East Brook.

Now it is known as the Brook Theatre. The architect who designed it, G E Bond, also built the Grade II listed Chatham Theatre Royal in Manor Road in 1899.

On the horizon, beyond the similarly derived Mill Brook Road, stands the imposing Ardwyn.

Today, it is still almost entirely enclosed by water - the English Channel lies to the south-east and south-west, Pagham Harbour to the north-east, and a brook, known as the Broad Rife, to the north-west

Brook Street, however, was largely demolished, as we can see from the void in the distance.

Then, the tall building belonging to Brooks & Sons the Drapers, who boast of being established in 1831, has been replaced by the Post Office, which has a datestone GR 1938.

We are looking towards the corner of Island Road, with Brook and Williams's printers and bookbinder's shop and works on the right; this block of shops later became one of the first department stores in

The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway into the village is now reduced to a footpath.

Otterton's brook seems to be dry in this photograph, as it sometimes is during long dry summers.

Here we see the By Brook flowing placidly past the rows of exquisite cottages, with their steep stone-slated roofs and dormers. A man sits on the bank with his granddaughter enjoying the tranquillity.

On the right by the pillar box is a circulating library; across the street is the Lantern Bakery, next door to H Brooks, grocer and Italian warehouseman.

Beside Sabden Brook stands the church of St Nicholas, built in 1846. A countryside of varied beauty accounts for the caravan site.

In this photograph, taken a few years after 56473 (pages 30-31), horse carriages still await their fares in the centre of Brook Street.

Eynesbury very much plays second fiddle to the town of St Neots, from which it is separated only by the Hen Brook.

This view shows Brook Street with its cantilever railway bridge, removed after the line closed between Ilkley and Morecambe.

The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.

Chipping Brook once powered five water mills - one is now a restaurant called the Water Mill. Wolfen Mill made bobbins, then became a cheese factory.