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The White Horse is a timber-framed building of 1694, later encased in Victorian brick when the far bay was added. On the left is the corner of the shop, with its penny bubble gum dispenser.

Many of the houses along this street feature the locally made brown bricks.

Originally timber-framed, it was rebuilt again in brick, as seen here.

High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.

The ubiquitous St Catherine breaks through what would have been the skyline.

The camera looks north towards the large green; on its right is the three- storey early 19th- century red brick Royal Oak pub.

Fahy's, on the opposite corner, is now Hector's Sandwich Shop, and the paving slabs have been replaced with a rather attractive combination of red bricks in white flags.

The Victorian brick building (centre) was Carter's cycles and Wells's electrical shop. Next is Bond's fish and chips, with a sweet shop at the end of the row.

The bridge has since been replaced, but part of the brick wall to the right remains.

Since 1895 the two buildings to the right of the mill have been replaced by a four- storey brick-built roller mill.

It is an exuberant William and Mary cum Queen Anne style building in brick and stone, and is now offices. Beyond is Sutton's Seeds and several houses, all now demolished.

Built of brick in 1790, the cone housed a central furnace around which glassmakers worked in what must have been hellish conditions.

The camera looks north towards the large green; on its right is the three- storey early 19th- century red brick Royal Oak pub.

In a not unattractive red brick, end-of-village group, it is impossible not to notice the Black Horse pub, with its well- mannered frontage and attractive pantiled roofs.

Here we see a fine example of a white weatherboarded Kentish smock mill with a two-storey square brick base and wooden staging for access to the sails.

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases

At least they faced these buildings with bricks instead of the grey and grim concrete so popular thirty- odd years ago.

The Frogmore Café (left) offered busy shoppers a break until 1969, when it was taken over by Sketchleys the cleaners.

Built in yellow brick in 1839 in what is known as 'Commissioners Gothic', the present All Saints' was relocated by Sir Edmund Turnor to this site, a quarter of a mile away from the site of the medieval

The Gaiety Theatre dominates the corner where the Aldwych breaks off from the Strand.

The fine old farmhouse sits on a brick base and is hung with tiles and swathed in creeper.

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover.

There is a white brick Gothic battlemented arch between the first and second group. The pump was the gift of William Makin, farmer at the Hall, in 1854; it was made by Ransomes & Sims of Ipswich.

Aneurin Bevin, Tredegar's most famous son, wrote of the coalminer's lot: 'In other trades, there are a thousand diversions to break the monotony of the work - the passing traffic, the morning newspaper