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Lines of local authority housing climb the hill at Stanmore on the south-west outskirts of Winchester, which has evolved and expanded over the years.

This picture shows its quaint, narrow High Street with the 450-year-old Lord Nelson pub, originally a customs house, on the left. Note the motor cycle and sidecar in the left foreground.

This building stands on the corner of Barrack Street, and is now a private house.

It was a private house for a while, and then became a hotel run by the North Foreland Hotels Ltd.

The lean-to building has been removed to expose the overhanging jetty of the house. The growth has now been cleared off the gabled White Lodge.

The village pond, originally for watering horses, was filled in about 1960 and the area is now a pleasant village green, still with some of the original trees.

For a time the building housed the Lever family's growing art collection before its eventual removal to Thornton Manor.

The brick and white weatherboarded smock mill still stands in Mill Lane on the banks of the River Tillingham, though it is now converted for use as a guest house.

A mile or so to the north of the village is a house where Edward Elgar spent his summers between 1917 and 1921.

Note the goods piled outside on the pavement outside Jackson's hardware store on the right, and the horse and cart further down the street.

Since this photograph was taken the vicarage glimpsed here beyond the castellated tower has become a private house.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

The post office we see here on the right is now a private house; the door between the windows has been blocked up, leaving an entrance only from the side.

The Beach House soon became a refreshment rooms, and even had swing boats erected beside it. Despite extensive damage in the 1953 floods, a small café and shop still stands on the site.

The houses in this scene are typical of Stoneleigh, which retains a pleasant mixture of brick, timber and local red sandstone.

The houses nearest us were once commercial premises—a hardware store and a tailor's. To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair.

All of the houses still stand. The Old Quay Inn, to the right, is still trading, and so are the majority of the shops along the front.

The fine house in the background survives unspoilt today, and is also used as solicitors' offices.

The twin-gabled Old Wine House, near right, is dated 1537. Many of the other buildings have either been replaced or renovated.

Henley is renowned for its annual regatta, which takes place in July; notice that the Forge House Studio, on the left, is displaying a banner advertising Regatta Photos.

Again, the buildings are the same today - in fact the only difference is the addition of a telephone box in front of Willoughby House on the left.

This view of a virtually deserted Emgate shows a street of sturdy 18th- and 19th-century houses leading up to the Royal Hotel at the top of the hill.

On the slopes below the Fort, known in Edwardian times as Fort St George and run as a guest house and tearoom, the depressions in the hillside are largely the result of surface quarrying.

The nearby Grantchester Tea Rooms houses an excellent collection of photographs and exhibits about the poet and his contemporaries.