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Today the wooden gates are gone, and so is the fountain in the road, erected by the Hender family in memory of their son Leonard, who drowned near Land's End in 1894.

The gentleman proudly escorts three elegant ladies dressed in white; other people further back are intrigued by the crab boats, which were probably made by Leonard Lown or his son Henry.

They take place around the Palladian-style market cross which is in the centre of five main roads.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

Up here is Bentley Priory, remodelled by Sir John Soane in the late 18th century, where Queen Adelaide died in 1849; here, too, is Stanmore Hall, a remarkable ragstone building which until a great conflagration

view is looking from Peveril Point to the Clock Tower (centre), showing its original spire, which was replaced by a cupola in 1904 after fundamentalist Christian protests that spires only belong on

The bottom of the church steeple is higher than the roof of the parsonage, just visible in the trees.

We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street. The scene appears very quiet, with only one car and a cyclist to be seen.

'A walk through the streets on a summer's day half-a- century ago ... was different in many respects.

At the top of Sceptre Hill on the way to Tonbridge stands the Hand and Sceptre Hotel; built in 1663, it became an inn in 1728, serving during this time as a district court.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

The Verneys of Claydon House in Middle Claydon, now a National Trust house, bought Steeple Claydon in 1705 from the Chaloner family, who are commemorated in the village road, Chaloners Hill.

Down a tiny lane off the main street, we find the charming 19th-century church of St Gregory.

It is washday again; this time the linen is pegged on a line on Tate Hill sands. Washing machines were almost unknown at this date, and owned only by rich people.

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.

On the right is the Mole Valley Council Offices, opened in 1984; the building is not in keeping with the character of the town, but architecturally it is a good design.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

Crown Street connects the Bullock Market and Market Hill. It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.