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The scaffolding is there because the rest of the building has just been pulled down.

Here a Royal Air Force coastal radar station slipped down the cliffs on 14 May 1942. Its concrete and brick remains are entombed in the undercliff.

The pillar box is now further down the High Street. In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road. No 1 is divided by a drainpipe from 100 High Street.

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

Wootton ran his stables at Treadwell House, off Downs Road. He had come to Epsom in 1906 when he was a boy, arriving with his father Richard from Australia.

Further down, near all the cars, is Frydays, a good fish and chip shop and restaurant.

The original house, owned by the Napier family, burnt down in 1742, and the wealthy Humphrey Sturt, who had married an heiress, inherited the estate in 1765.

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

Moving down the lane away from the green there is a row of architecturally more mixed houses, some 1840s Estate houses, others older before the Estate went into picturesque Tudor mode.

This view looks down Warren Close from the main Aylesbury Road, the chapel on the left just out of view.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building.

Sand yachts were large four-wheeled vehicles mounting a yacht rig and capable of tearing up and down the beach at high speed.

In November the chancellor slashed purchase tax on new cars from 45 per cent down to 25 per cent. The following year car sales topped the million mark for the first time at 1,030,694 vehicles.

Further down the street, we see a wonderfully-posed assortment of turn-of-the-century trades - a delivery boy in his striped apron, someone pushing a cart with a water barrel, and the village postman.

This peaceful view of the old High Street looks down the hill to the Harrow Inn at the bottom.

This was constructed in the early 19th century by Walter May so that he could enjoy a prospect of the sea, however the South Downs prevented his dream from being realised.

Parts of it date from the 1400s, and the three bells are said to have come from the Abbey after it was pulled down.

The theatre burned down in 1926; plays then had to be performed in a local cinema.

It sits snugly in the Downs near to the Ridgeway and Avebury stone circle.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.