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To the right of this photograph is a poster advertising the film You Were Meant for Me, starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey, and showing at the Embassy cinema.

Our visit to Stapleford concludes with an oddity: the Hemlock Stone.

Along the street on the left stand St Stephen's Institute and the village school; beyond, on Ralph's Wife's Lane, is the church of St Stephen in the Banks.

The church in the picture is St James. This was built as a chantry chapel to All Saints, which was in the Saxon part of the town, well away from the newer area.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Kingsgate Castle was built in about 1860 close to the sea cliff's edge and the North Foreland itself. It is shown here romantically clothed in ivy.

Black's Canal was at the western extreme of the Gidea Hall Estate.

The Ship Inn at Gidea Park served the travellers on the Essex Great Road in the days when stage coaches thundered through on their way from London to East Anglia.

The blaze also damaged Archer's ironmongers' shop next door (with a kettle for its trade-sign). Spectators at the fire faced the added danger of having the clock fall on them.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

The motor launch 'Hurlingham' is negotiating the lock at Teddington.

The church of St Mary has some parts that are medieval, but most of what can be seen today dates from its rebuilding between 1859 and 1860 under the supervision of Henry Woodyer.

Today the inn sign of this well-known local landmark features the former prime minister David Lloyd George, who made his home close by at Bron-y-de in 1921.

By 1861 there were 16 pubs here, and it is reckoned that at least 17 other hostelries have come and gone within this parish.

The shop on the right of this photograph is Hermitage Post Office and Stores. Today the speed limit through the village is thirty miles per hour, not forty.

The little cottages between the first two parked cars in this photograph have gone, and the Crown Inn on the right disappeared some years ago.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

In 1947 land behind the war memorial was landscaped as sunken gardens and their 1.3 acres became the new Gardens of Remembrance.

The church of St Lawrence has twin rood-stair turrets – these are usually found in much larger churches, such as St Mary's, Bury St Edmunds. The south porch dates from 1466.

With so many workers arriving here in the 1800s from Ireland there was a strong Roman Catholic presence and this enormous church was built in the 1870s to serve that congregation.

E J Baker, the High Street butcher, was delivering to the substantial houses, many of which still stand today.

This picture was taken at about the time when Lower Neatham Mill (pictured here) was sold by the Denyers to the Ellis family of Headley Mill. They continued to produce 100% wholemeal flour.

Feckenham once stood at the heart of Feckenham Forest, an ancient hunting ground of kings, which once covered some 200 square miles and included over 60 settlements.