Dorking, Old Reigate Road 1906
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'A walk through the streets on a summer's day half-a- century ago ... was different in many respects. Let us first, however, get a glimpse of the old town by an imaginary walk through its streets. We enter at a place by London Road, say on a summer's morning ... Although yet early, the mill by the roadside is already at work, and the forge of the blacksmith's shop at the Reigate Road corner is in full blast. We pass along by the southern entrance of the neighbouring nursery grounds ... The chestnut trees hard by the broad green meadow, the mill-pond, and the distant hill are each of them objects of beauty.'
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