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The George Hotel is now a private house. The garage beyond it, with a fake timber-framed frontage, has long gone.

The turreted building in the centre of this photograph is Vale Tower, built in the 1830s as Romanoff House, a school run by Thomas Allfree - he had been tutor to the Russian royal family

The High Street runs down between pollarded lime trees and mellow stone houses to the River Windrush.

She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

In the far distance beyond the road sign is now a housing estate.

Initially a defensible tower, it was later given over to civic purposes: a court and a police station were housed here. Until 1974 the council used to meet in the room above the clock.

Initially a defensible tower, it was later given over to civic purposes: a court and a police station were housed here.

It is now converted to a private house.

If you need it, here is the evidence of unchanged houses over sixty years, although fish and chips are now on the national menu.

In its later years, the house became a hotel, which was bought in 1939 by the Southern Railway Co.

The Honeypot Lane Murders Just around the corner from this innovative, crescent-shaped block of 50 town houses is Honeypot Lane.

The houses on the right were demolished to improve the junction with Calcutt Road, but little else has changed. The 1897 Diamond Jubilee clock tower survives outside The Vale pub.

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.

Shugborough Hall, Lord Lichfield's house, is behind the trees to the left; the small building on the towing path is now a craft shop.

The church houses some interesting artefacts, including what is purported to be a rib from the Dun Cow, said to have been slain by that old-fashioned homicidal maniac, Guy of Warwick; it is, in fact, a

The narrow alley between the houses leads off to Bull Hill.

In the distance stands the ancient Pack Horse Inn. The ivy-clad house is now the Conservative Club, whilst the shops remain relatively unchanged.

Keay House—on the right—was home to Basildon Urban District Council from 1960 to 1965. It took its name from Sir Lancelot Keay, the first chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

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

This cottage was an infamous refuge for smugglers and a store-house for their contraband.

The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.

The road to the front of the houses is now much wider, and there is a small park opposite the college.

Lower Slaughter is best visited on a crisp winter's day, when the stream is full and the houses stand clear against the morning sun.

In it he found a vaulted 13th-century ossuary, or charnel house, containing the bones from over 1500 human skeletons from the graveyard. They remain there, neatly stacked.