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We are looking north along the High Street, with the school of 1849 on the far right, converted to a house in 1969.

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

It is distinctive in that its porch, with its upper room and flanking round tower, would look more at home on a fortified manor house.

Down Commercial Street is the Market House, with a clock tower built by John Francis Basset in 1866. The Bassets of Tehidy were important mineral lords in this once-great copper and tin mining centre.

The town was very popular as a health resort in the mid-18th century, which resulted in many fine terraces of houses springing up. Children crowd the foreground.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Note that one of the cinemas, the Picture House, has given way to Fine Fare (centre right).

The buildings survive, but they were Tudorised and given leaded light windows and applied timber-framing: you could be forgiven for driving past and thinking it a 1920s period-style road house pub.

The nearby Sheffield Park estate built the modern mock half-timbered houses at the end of the street.

The challenge was met by new boarding houses, tall and each able to take in several families. They were built in rows.

This area was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s, when a tide of semi- detached housing swept across the fields.

This view, from the north, is across country- side, whereas today the foreground is occupied by housing and an industrial estate.

The second Lord Chesham, the son of the builder of Latimer House, was a Brigadier-General in the Boer War and the obelisk is a memorial to the men who served in that war.

All Saints' church stands like a watchtower over this street, which houses many small businesses.

At one time said to be the site of the town house of the High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in the 16th century, the structure was almost certainly rebuilt during the 19th century.

The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains. St Mary's churchyard contains the original Bolder Stone.

The canal basin was later filled in, and is now a private garden; the canal warehouse, built in 1825, is now used for housing.

Although the smithy is now a private house, older villagers recall the First World War and how the blacksmith was recruited on one day a week to make horse shoes for the war effort.

When Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight Soap king, bought Hall Barn and Great House Barn he had them renovated as public refreshment rooms.

The big change is the addition, in the lee of the hill, of a well-designed theatre block by Kenneth W Reed and Associates of Harrow, along with a number of equally well-designed houses.

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Close to the buttress nearest the camera, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house by Norman Shaw, to the north

As the suburban semi-detached house with its timbering and Tudor detailing reflected the Englishman's home as his castle, so with the contemporary pubs.

Development began in around 1870 with the arrival of the Great Northern Railway, but it was the arrival of the Piccadilly Line in 1933 that produced mass housing.