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Winchelsea, despite its status, is really little more than a village; it feels like a prosperous garden suburb with its grass verges and widely-spaced houses.

George Bernard Shaw used to attend meetings of the Fabian Society at a house in the village. Fernhurst is closely associated with the Sussex ironworks industry.

This view shows Curbar and Baslow Edges in the background, with the houses of the village filling the dale in the foreground.

The house consists of four ranges built round a courtyard. On the right here is the south range, which includes the parlour and great chamber.

In high summer it became difficult to find an available bed in the resort's many hotels and guest houses.

Two new housing developments have appeared further down the road.

Further down on the left is the Society of the Resurrection's retreat, St Francis House.

The tree-lined road still runs straight past the refurbished village hall in the distance, whilst the building hidden behind the trees on the left was demolished and the site redeveloped as a small housing

Many of the townís older houses in London Road can be seen in this view from Mount Ephraim.

These houses, also known as the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, were founded in the 17th century. Built in ragstone, these pleasant cottages with dormers were restored in about 1842.

The undercroft on the west side of the cloister garden comprises the two vaulted aisles that once formed the abbot's cellars; above this was the guest-house.

The tearooms are to the left of the picture, with the bandstand to their right and Clare House Pier in the centre.

Here at the top end of the hamlet, the nearest end of the thatched house is the post office, with a telephone kiosk outside. The very small village hall is on the left.

Trenarren hamlet is in the far distance, and the mill house at Hallane is on the extreme left.

By 1955 the horse and cart have made way for the car, the street lamps have appeared, but the shops and everything else have changed very little in West Street.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the left is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

On the left is Bleak House, now castellated, and on the right the pier and little harbour. Broadstairs retains its Dickens association with its annual Dickens Festival.

On the extreme left is Peel House, built in 1851 and once the police station.

Although some houses have been altered, this view is recognisable today.

This uninterrupted view out over the lower Gannel estuary and the golden sands and dunes of Crantock confirms why Pentire became popular in the early days of housing development on the western outskirts

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

We can see the steepness of the streets by comparing the level of the Laurel Inn with the houses rising up behind.

Standing out in the distant centre is an attractive house where beer was once sold. It is situated at a crossroads, with Winchester Road on the left and Church Lane on the right.

When this picture was taken much of the town was fairly new, having been built over the previous thirty years or so to meet the demand for housing from Stockport and Manchester-based business people wishing