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Its ornate style contrasts with the plainer stone houses that are more characteristic of the town.

The wall of the house on the right is smothered in trade posters and advertisements for the forthcoming attractions at the Empire Theatre.

Where Heath Park Road (on the right) meets Brentwood Road and Slewins Lane (in the centre), meets Manor Avenue and Balgores Lane (on the left), is the Drill public house.

The family were recusant Catholics, and there are two priest-holes concealed in the house. Queen Elizabeth came to stay here in 1561.

The Red Lion, in the hamlet of Middle Street, was rebuilt in 1888; it is now a residence called the White House. The car outside is a pre-war Morris.

The village school is now on a new site, and the old buildings have been demolished and replaced by houses.

This is all that remains of cloth- maker John Winchcombe's house.

The New Inn on the left of this picture became the Prancing Horse pub before the business eventually closed.

Many people visit this beautiful house each year, not only because it is a stunning building, but because it has also become the venue for an annual summer season of open-air theatre and concerts.

At its southern end sits the Manor House. There are two inscriptions on this building: one is just below the crest on the left gable, and the second is underneath the window just below it.

However in the way of such things, it is now an art gallery, and the Royal Oak pub beyond is now a house.

The vicarage beyond is now two private houses.

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

The famous Butetown community was ripped apart by a programme of demolition and re- housing. We now know that the area was not dead but merely dormant.

The estate, with its extensive and very beautiful deer park, passed into the hands of the Pole family, who built a Georgian mansion in the grounds of the old house.

Apart from some infilling by more houses, this scene remains relatively unchanged.

The keep is 14th century, though it was rebuilt in 1840 to house students following the creation of Durham University in 1832. The castle was turned into a university college a few years later.

Towards the end of the century many smaller houses were also built in Moseley, which became a notably cosmopolitan community.

Bolton Hall Estate own most of the property here; no new houses have been built, nor is there employment other than in agriculture.

The old manor house on the site was replaced by the present building in 1853. Converted first of all into a country club, it became a hotel in 1964.

At that elevation, the views encompass the surrounding countryside; in this scene, we can see across the river to a development of modern semi-detached houses, which would be newly-built at this time.

The houses of Bramber are varied and picturesque. Some are built of brick or flint, and some are creeper-clad. The village was once an important port on the River Adur.

A pretty village with various Georgian houses, Slinfold lies in the countryside to the west of Horsham.

To the right of the houses the clay soil of the valley bottom will be very fertile for a variety of crops in the fullness of time when nature reasserts itself.