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To the right are the post-war council houses and the filling station in the Globe Hotel car park. The blue sign for the M1 (left) is a new addition to the countryside.

In the intervening years there has been some housing infill, but essentially the area between church and shoreline is much as it was in 1955.

This view shows the entrance to the Phipps Arms, formerly the Black Horse Inn. Known locally as 'the Phipper', it is currently being converted into residences.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

Opposite the church are the Red Lion and the Royal Oak public houses.

Housing has now appeared beyond the fringes of the park.

The well-known local Dowsett family gave this beautiful moated manor house to the town.

The wide road shows the importance of this route to the town.The wide pavements are said to have been constructed to facilitate rope and net mak- ing outside the inhabitants' houses.

The house on the left was (and still is) Hallow's post office.

The distant hill with the white house is above Helford Passage on the north side of the main estuary.

Like most of the villages in this area, Amberley played its part in the cloth making industry, but the larger houses built on the higher level of the steep hillside were well away from

This valley community became the focus of a nation's grief when in 1966 Pontglas School and a row of adjacent houses were buried under a sliding coal tip.

All those families moving into Astwood Bank's new houses in the 1960s needed facilities, and the community does have a fair range. The park seems to have been popular then, but is less so today.

In 1959 the narrow High Street still had 19th-century buildings on both sides, but an overspill housing programme was already under way and traffic was increasing.

To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.

In front of the Tower, now housing the Coastal Defence Museum, the colonnaded building has been replaced by the present 1960s-style Restaurant and Sun Lounge.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

The hotel is on the site of the medieval monastery of Weybridge, a small house of canons providing hospitality for travellers between Great Yarmouth and Norwich, both by road and by river.

The car is heading towards Whitby, and just beyond the tallest building on the left, which is now demolished, lies the Duke William public house.

This uncompromising modern building opened on 10 October 1952, and was soon filled with the post-war baby boom and the children of Woolston's new housing developments.

A group of customers wait to saddle-up for an excursion from the White House Riding School at Huntington, a small village just to the north of York.

Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

A shady spot suitable for scholarly discussion or common-room gossip, this avenue of lime trees, their bases encircled by benches, replaces a circular drive and lawn in front of C House.

It is said that she often made the journey here from Osborne House to admire the setting of this village and its fascinating old church.