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Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.

Across the Arun we head north to Fittleworth, a village running north from the River Rother up to the Petworth to Pulborough road, now the A283.

An enjoyable detail, not fully visible in this picture, is the demon's head nailed by its ears above the door, traditionally claimed to represent Oliver Cromwell.

The Normans built a church in Westham after the Conqueror had landed nearby. Priesthawes House was built from stone taken from nearby Pevensey?Castle.

He was also angry; angry that Robert Stewart had done precious little to secure his freedom.

Virtually all the shops have changed ownership, but the Nags Head (left) is still providing a pint or two.

Antiquity shows in the datestone (1660) of the Ram's Head, a coaching inn on the Ormskirk to Preston road. Tarleton's mossland was drained in order to produce crops.

By the 1880s Eastbourne had become 'The Empress of Watering Places', set against the backdrop of Beachy Head.

The King's Head has gone for a 1960s parade of shops with flats over, Arndale House, while much on the left has also been rebuilt.

This fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, is well sited at the head of Church Street. Its solid clasping buttressed and battlemented tower rises in four stages.

At the end of Church Lane to the west of All Saints' Church the base of a medieval cross survives with its new shaft and head of the 1920s.

On the right are the Edwardian buildings occupied by Marlow's from 1925 to 1975, Watson's Post Office and the Queens Head.

The area had a large number of public houses: on the corner was the Cambrian Public, on the right-hand side was the Kings Head, on the left was the Golden Lion, and the Black Prince was just around

Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards

No 35 Market Place was the King's Head, which is first mentioned in a deed of 1770. In the 1950s the Conservative Association had their offices above.

The Stag's Head ranked as a public house, but took visitors. It stands at the corner of Ballymagee Street, a name which was not thought quite suitable; it eventually became High Street.

This fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, is well sited at the head of Church Street. Its solid clasping buttressed and battlemented tower rises in four stages.

St Patrick himself is said to have been shipwrecked on the head; years later, monks came from his monastic foundation in Ireland and built this chapel in his memory.

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others. Mowbray attempted to escape, but was captured.

A splendid open car heads north, driving in the middle of the road. The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

In the early years, all subscribers had their own separate line from the switchboard to their home or business.

In 1808 a diarist wrote that he attended an expensive dinner where twenty people consumed beef, chicken, ham, goose, duck and pie for 15s per head.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.

The grocery shop on the right had been owned by Samuel and later Ebenezer Giffin. At the time of the photograph it was owned by William Cullen, and passed in the 1940s to Swan & Nickolds.