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On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

In 1854 his heir, Alexander Beresford-Hope, cased the house in Wealden sandstone and added another storey in the English Gothic style. Today it is a private school.

Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849. Next door is Bartlett & Cain the drapers.

The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments. However, there is still a good view from the Norman St Margaret's Church.

It is one of two bridges in the village - the other one at Bridge End dates from the 17th century, and features a tiny toll house with a 3½ ft (1m) high doorway.

Just behind, a cyclist passes the swinging sign of the Green Man public house, which partially obscures the advertising sign for the baker's shop of T G Dunfold.

In the village stands a fine 17th-century house, The Cross, and the magnificent All Saints' Church (centre left).

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

Beyond Parkers, all has gone, replaced by a modern shopping centre, while to the right the tree has gone, and all the houses are now shops.

It fulfilled several purposes, serving as hospital, almshouses and pilgrims' hostel, but the two houses were the homes of chantry priests.

His novel idea was to treat each side of the Square as a single architectural composition, so that the terraces of houses looked like single grand palace fronts with central pediments on three sides of

This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement.

This is now a private house called Rose Cottage; the building has been painted white, and is almost completely unrecognisable, with just its roofline remaining the same.

In the foreground is Shear's Farm, once the Axe & Compass public house which closed in 1907. The building is now two private cottages. The road to the right leads to Callas Hill and Foxhill.

Immediately below St Mary's church, practically the only surviving reminder that this was the site of the earliest Chatham Dockyard is Command House, the building with the five white-framed

We are looking from the Cliffe; Bleak House is prominent in the centre of the photograph. Note the small train ride in the left-hand corner of the beach.

These photographs are not an opportunity to comment on the drinking habits of Newtonians, but an interesting study in contrasting styles in licensed premises - road house, local welcome

High walls enclose the water channel, for although the village lies some seven miles from the coast, it is barely above sea-level: the houses lining the river bank have been flooded many times over

The row of houses on the left has since been demolished.

Today modern housing can be found running alongside the river.

It is one of the most changed areas of the town, with nearly all these houses demolished in 1964 as part of a slum clearance programme that was resisted by many local people.

The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.

The boulders and rocks are placed strategically along the mudflats to protect the banks from sea erosion and to safeguard the houses close by. Whitby