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The buttressed wall on the left belongs to the former rectory, a good brick house of about 1700 with seven bays of sash windows.

It acquired town walls in 1285, and in 1353 it wrested away Lincoln's wool staple. It was the wool trade that built the town, with its seething market and vast numbers of ships.

This building at the foot of Park Lane, with its stuccoed walls, pedimented porch, and ornamental iron gates, was built around 1820 as the lodge to Cheam Park House.

From 1862 North Wall was the Dublin terminus for London & North Western Railway steamers from Holyhead.

Rectory Lane used to be called Duck Street. The water-carter (right) has just drawn water from the spout and trough recessed in the wall (far right).

The chancel, with its priest's doorway and wall paintings, is early 13th-century and the fine chancel screen dates from around 1500.

The outside walls have three horizontal tiers and gables in the nave and chancel.

For decades, just as in this picture, people have sunned themselves along the sea wall. The Bay Hotel is on the right.

Beyond, the trees and walls have made way for a wider road.

Until 1928, when it was burnt down, the Hall stood at the east end of the village.

The clock above the Market Hall (centre) was a favourite rendezvous point for many courting couples on their way to the theatre and cinemas.

This view shows the spot where the south lane curves north to meet the main through east-west lane; the wall to the left to Aldsworth is now reduced in height by half.

In this typically well-wooded river scene, we can see lavish use of stone in walls and bridge that could stand for centuries.

We look eastwards from the bushes and wall of The Grove (left). This large Victorian villa was destroyed by fire in 1952, which enabled widening of the street.

A promenade walk had been established along the street in the 1880s, when some of the gardens were removed.

The wall on the right was knocked down and a garage built. This disappeared in 1997, replaced by a pretty park. The Post Office has gone, and the Westward Ho!

On the wall is a bubble gum machine, once a popular feature of the frontage of every village store in the country.

The north side is dominated by Haven Green Court with its green roof tiles, a massive wall of five-storey flats built in 1927-38 and aimed at the London commuter - the flats replaced a large house,

The tree and garden walls belong to the Meades, a house of about 1800 with a fine Ionic porch and set in large grounds.

The almost new Vauxhall Wyvern E model is parked nearly opposite Collins, the antique dealer, and adjacent to the rather modern houses behind the slag-block wall.

The timber palisade was replaced by a stone curtain wall in the early 13th century; here we can see the remains of the 12th-century keep.

Although lacking hedges and trees, the gardens are maturing behind fences and dwarf walls. The local council has already made a start on digging up the road and footpaths.

You can see evidence of Saxon work in the walls of the nave, as well as the delicate sculpture of four Norman arches.

The youths sitting on the wall in front could be posing for the camera, or they might just be dangling a line into the mill stream to see what they might catch.