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The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.

The house and shop to the left have been demolished. Off to the left are the first rural council houses in England, built in 1893.

The Palladian-style building on the extreme left of the picture houses the Council offices; the town's court house was formerly here.

The house on the left - The Laurels - is now, indeed, called Pond House.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

The original house, built by Mr Hutchinson Brown, was bought by Charles Birch Crisp who, in 1910, commissioned newly-qualified architect Oliver Hill to enlarge the house and design the gardens.

Behind on the left is a house called Belle Vue, later Whitcliffe Grange, now demolished and replaced by council houses. Beyond is Westfields, one of the town's three medieval open fields.

The sign in the background reads 'This House For Sale' - a restrained version of the estate agent's notices of today.

Dartmoor Prison at Princetown was built in 1806, initially to house French prisoners of war.

The Chelmsford & Essex Museum, too, was housed here before the more capacious Oaklands House became available in 1929.

Weston House and its grounds were sold by the Harrison family to the Corporation in 1873, the house itself being converted into a museum; the Mappin Art Gallery was added in 1887.

This view of the staithe from the old Excise House shows Southgates Boat Hire office, which is now Rivercraft Yachting Services.

The land opposite the pub is now occupied by housing and a recreation-ground, whilst the house with the appealingly rickety weatherboarding has been dismantled.

This frontage was designed by Christopher Wren when William III turned the then Nottingham House into his residence.

Crickhowell House originally opened in 1993 and has, since 1999, played temporary host to the National Assembly whilst the greatly delayed new debating chamber is constructed.

Once the works had been constructed, the scheme was abandoned, and Vickers took over the houses. Girls play on the Green, which is now occupied by houses.

In the grounds behind the Council Offices stands Pippbrook House, the home of Dorking's main Library. It was once a private house.

The large shelter and the Jubilee fountain replaced the grand wrought iron gates of Torbay House as the focal point of Torbay Road.

It is a beautiful Jacobean house, now in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors. Kipling's literary work 'Puck of Pook's Hill' (1906) is set in the area.

The White Lion, one of many public houses in the village, was called the Rose and Crown in 1766, when it formed part of a marriage settlement between Mary Field and John Smith of Hitchin.

Princess Christian had always been interested in developing the nursing profession in Windsor and she bought two houses, on the corner of Clarence Road and Trinity Place, in 1894 to establish a Nursing

The brick barn on the left at Red House Farm and the iron field fence remain, but the houses on the right have been altered and a few demolished, including the single-storey one on the corner of the quaintly-named

Behind on the left is a house called Belle Vue, later Whitcliffe Grange, now demolished and replaced by council houses. Beyond is Westfields, one of the town's three medieval open fields.

The private houses on the left are now occupied by pizza take-aways and newsagents.