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A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

Folkestone was popular with authors: Charles Dickens rented a property here while writing Little Dorrit, and H G Wells lived at Spade House while he wrote Kipps and The History of Mr Polly.

The further one was J Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. The Greyhound (right) has been in the Howlett family since c1925.

Former mill workers' houses, now modernised, line the beck. Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

On the left here is the Maltsters' Arms, still a thriving public house.

The 19th century houses are generally rendered.

Located between the Cley and Kelling roads, this fine house is built in the neo-Gothic style and set in beautiful grounds.

In the foreground are allotments, now buried under housing. On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

Beyond we can see some of the 1950s houses fronting Main Street.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

This photograph, entitled with the school's historic name, King Edward VI Free Grammar School, shows School House, which was built by Hugo Daniel Harper, the school's headmaster from 1850

Sun lounges were in fashion, partly thanks to George Bernard Shaw, who had his entire house fitted out with windows of Vita glass.

The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.

Like other interesting buildings in the area, it joined the holiday industry and became a guest house. Its image can be found on many calendars throughout the country.

Since this photograph was taken, the aptly named Castle Inn has closed and been converted into houses. It still retains its characteristic frontage.

Its 18th-century coaching inn is of similar age to the house of Thomas Turner, who built a folly tower nearby and shared with the villagers his pond and lawns, which became the large village green.

Here the village is seen from the churchyard, which adjoins a beautiful Jacobean manor house. The triangle with the phone box was once a grassy area where there were hustings at election times.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

In 1890, visitors looking westwards from Worthing's pier would have seen terraces of Georgian lodging houses interspersed with a few newly erected Victorian buildings, such as the Clear View Hotel shown

The growth is self-evident here, with Brooke House's massive V-shaped struts in the background (left) and the post office under construction.

It was originally four separate premises - a house, a pub, an off-licence and a bookmaker.

In the 15th century the cave was put to use as a smugglers' den before it was later converted into a pigeon house.

The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s. It faces the war memorial, erected in 1921-22 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

The village lies in the north-east corner of Hampshire, in an area of the county now strewn with busy roads and saturated with housing developments.