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Above the third vehicle, making its way down the High Street towards the junction, is the sign of the original Harrow Inn, which was demolished in 1934 and replaced by the present building.

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

They had blacked-up faces and wore a sort of clown outfit with pom-poms down the front. They played twice daily on the beach.

The Walmer Stores in the centre of this photo has its blinds down.

The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.

The area around Glasson is teaming with wildlife, and is a bird watcher's paradise from Conder Green down to Cockerham Sands in the south. Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.

Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down

During the Second World War, Mrs Armitage, who had taken to using her pony and trap to save petrol, would tie the pony up to the pump when she came down to the village to shop, never mind

Coal was imported down to the mid 20th century – we can see a small Dutch coaster discharging her cargo, with coal heaped on the quayside (centre).

This view is looking down from the road bridge; things have changed greatly at Sandy.

This attractive view is little changed today, except that the Green, predictably, is kept close-mown now, and woe betide any daisy that shows its head.

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.

In this picture things have quietened down a little, and the policeman on point duty has only one waggon and several horse-trams and horse-drawn omnibuses to dodge.

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. The Tiger Inn is a fine building that was a barracks during the Napoleonic wars.

Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'little Venice', with soft green lawns spreading down to the water's edge.

It was here that woollen fairs and cattle markets were held, until the square became too developed; then the fairs moved down to Castlefields.

During the Civil War, he burnt the house down for fear that it might fall into Parliamentarian hands.

But the main auditorium was not pulled down for another thirty years, when the whole site was redeveloped.

Looking down the High Street we can see Fosters Brothers (centre right) in a new building that replaced the Bear Hotel, one of Daventry's coaching inns.

The scaffolding is there because the rest of the building has just been pulled down.

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.

The medieval church and Albury Park are to the east and north of the stream, and are now on the North Downs Way long-distance footpath.