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The building in the centre of the photograph is the Market Hall; today it is really only a façade, as it is now part of the new Crown Centre which adjoins it on the right.

In the 19th century this area was the centre of a busy coal mining industry.

Originally the site of the village pump, this cross is at the junction of five roads. The George Inn, behind the cross, and the King's Arms (left) are now just houses.

The hotel, which incorporates parts of a 14th-century building, features in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers'; it is in front of the hotel's ancient fireplace that Mr Pickwick warms his coat tails.

Generally known as 'The Market House', the building is 18th-century in origin and formed a covered area wherein farmers' wives and younger members of their families could display dairy products and similar

Now apartments, the convent was established c1850 by the Religious of the Assumption, who ran a girls' boarding school until 1993.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

This view captures well the qualities of old East Bourn, now called the Old Town.

The road climbs here along the chalk amid the beech woods of the Paradise Plantation. It picturesquely linked the old town with Meads, and was a popular stroll for visitors.

A local weather recording station, no doubt keeping a carefully tally of the total of sunshine hours, stands amid the formal gardens along the front.

She is the direct descendant of the 'Beauchamp', lost in the lifeboat disaster of 1901 when nine local lifeboatmen drowned as the boat capsized. There is a memorial to them in Caister cemetery.

Here, we are looking out onto King's Parade from the front of King's College. To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

From William both the Stuart royal line in Scotland and the English line of the Earls of Norfolk descend.

A lone oarsman makes his way from Sandside towards the west pier, as one of the pleasure boats returns to dis- charge its cargo of happy holidaymakers.

This view was taken from one of the highest points in the county.

LOWICK BRIDGE, The River Crake L462009 Lowick Bridge is the second road bridge to span the waters of the River Crake after it leaves Coniston Water, and is close to the pub.

This was the start of the famous Felsted School, which rose to the height of its fame in the 19th century under its headmaster W S Grignon.

The harbour office (left) stands where the breakwater meets the wall of the 18th-century pier.

These flats beyond the ponds at Woodford Bridge were built in about 1959, and changed this remoter part of the parish from being what was generally described as a village into the general conurbation

Part of the estate was later to become a golf course with exhilarating views of the surrounding countryside and attractive villages.

The windmill was built in 1802, and was one of a number in the south and eastern parts of the county.

After the railway came to the nearby town of Dorking, and also Gomshall, in the 19th century, Holmbury became a desirable place to live.

Our clock tower is showing signs of age in this photograph from half a century ago. The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.