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The premises have since been converted into a private house. Notice the decorator up his ladder taking a short break to make sure he is in the picture.

A number of the older houses here were originally inns, for Broadway lay on the London to Worcester coaching route.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Next door, the Gate House Tea Rooms boasts some lovely 16th-century linenfold wooden panelling.

Mill House (centre) has been converted into holiday accomodation.

His statue now stands at the far end of this path and facing the Houses of Parliament. The figure of the left is General Smuts.

church of St Nicholas and St Runwald.This replaced two older churches (St Runwalds and St Nicholas), but was itself demol- ished in 1955 and replaced by a parade of shops, known as St Nicholas House

The house sits in fields beside the River Arrow, away from the built-up part of Studley.

The installation of hiding places in great houses had to be kept secret; usually the work was undertaken when ostensibly a major architectural project was in hand.

The installation of hiding places in great houses had to be kept secret; usually the work was undertaken when ostensibly a major architectural project was in hand.

The Rookeries were the alleyways packed with slum dwellings which were giving Nottingham such a bad reputation for housing.

This friendly, unhygienic mix was replaced in 1927 by the present Council House, in an overpowering, municipal baroque style with a giant portico and towering dome.

Enterprise House, on the left, almost doubled Kirby's shops when it opened. Today a new Royal Oak has replaced the one we see here.

Harold White, a builder, used to live here - he built the yellow brick houses near the station, known as 'White City'.

The pump, with its stone Gothic-style pump house and metal wheel, is dated 1876. Four metal flag finials have since been added to the corners. Off to the left is the King's Head Inn.

Entry is through the door on the left, and the bulk of the building is a private house. It is still, I am glad to say, a post office to this day.

It was in this village, in an old malt house, that pictures from the National Gallery were once stored, well away from London's air raids, during the Second World War.

The Rose and Crown Hotel, and the Victorian estate cottages behind, are typical of houses elsewhere in the village - many of them have dated plaques.

Both the Swan Inn and the Six Bells public house, seen on the right, are both open today, but their frontages have been renovated and they have new signs. The Swan now serves Breakspear ales.

It is thought that the inn was once the brew-house of Dorchester Abbey.

Both the post office, run by H J Harding when the photograph was taken, and the 16th-century Eagle public house, are still open for business.

Horsted Keynes, situated on the western edge of the Ashdown Forest, has a green and an assortment of period houses and cottages.

An Austin A35 and a Morris Minor are parked outside the Devonshire Arms public house in the centre of the village.

The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby.