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Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

It was commissioned from James Forsyth by the Earl of Dudley, and was displayed at the Paris Exhibition in 1867 before being installed in its present position.

The library survives, but it is cut off from High Street by the ring road. It was built in 1905 with the help of a £3,000 donation from the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

The hotel was built by the London and North Western Railway Company for travellers from London to Scotland.

In the first half of the century this roundabout was filled with hansom cabs, and later from 1904 by the rattle of trams.

Originally a part of the Cardigan Fields estate, Headingley was put on the market in 1888 and purchased by the Leeds cricket and football clubs in January 1889.

With the cutting-off of the Cober the castle lost its raison d'etre, and it was in ruins by the late 15th century.

Vegetables would be grown mostly by the villagers themselves in their own back gardens; most would bake their own bread and cakes. Their lives went slowly on, in an undisturbed rustic idyll.

The whole scene is overlooked by the tower and steeple of St Peter and St Paul's church.

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

This view was taken by the eastern lake.

In 1960 Phipps was taken over by the giant Watney-Mann brewery, which retained the Phipps name but introduced the lettering shown here.

In the 1880s, when the French wars were long forgotten, it was moved to Aldershot and replaced by the dramatic bronze by Adrian Jones, an allegorical rendering of Peace dropping out of the

By the 1870s facilities were expanding, and with this expansion came a new bureaucracy.

The almshouses stand at the junction of Friar Street and Union Street on a site previously occupied by the city gaol.

By 1713 the Chester Room of the Kings Head was being used by the Court of Attachments of Waltham Forest, which met to decide on minor disputes.

The bronze head on the statue was designed and cast by the sculptor Fred Mancini.

Built in 1863 by the well-known architect of the time, P C Hardwick, it still maintains an imposing presence at the top of the town, despite the more indirect route to it now followed by Wellington Avenue

His shop was to be replaced within a year by the Westminster Bank. On the right is Robert Mattingley's clothing and boot warehouse, and the Anchor, kept by Robert Angier.

Many of its parishioners were employed by the Romford brewery.

Originally known as 'The Chequers', the building style established by the Higgins family is strongly evident in the hotel.

By the time the award was announced, however, Beattie was already in a POW camp in Germany. On receiving the news there, the German Camp Commandant held a special parade in his honour.

The clump of trees just in front of it marks the position of Barstable Cottage, one of the thousands of small tenements swept away by the New Town.

By the mid 1960s, dress sensibilities were changing: the young woman in Bay A is wearing a mini-skirt, whilst the man in Bay B sports narrow jeans.