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In this picture the East End Post Office can be seen on the right, the one building in the row not faced with weatherboard.The small store facing the photographer also housed the Coastguard Reporting

The white building (right) was the village butcher's shop - joints of meat were hung from the trees; beyond it is the three-gabled Town House.

However, it was finally named Victoria Hall, and the large building now houses various local societies' functions.

On the south side of this view is the London House store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover and Son. Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop(centre).

Set in a large landscaped park, reworked by Capability Brown in the 1750s, the east parts and north fringes of which went for housing in the 1930s, it was designed by Sir James Thornhill who had to sue

The old centre of Chalfont St Peter has suffered greatly, by-passed too closely and swamped by housing estates, the houses steadily increasing in size before merging with the affluent 'Metroland

Proof of this was a very old vine found in the grounds of a house in the 1960s, but unfortunately it was removed by new tenants.

The annexe sideways to the road has gone, and the house standing back from the road has been replaced by a bungalow. One of the two houses on the right, Highfield View, now has a porch.

Next to the club, on the corner of the Parade and Watch House Lane, is the Watch House of HM Customs. This has played a very important part in the history of Cowes, and continues to do so.

In 1815, a club was founded in London at the Thatched House Tavern by 42 gentlemen engaged in salt-water yachting.

The site has now been redeveloped for housing. The Blue Idol is a Quaker Friends Meeting House and guesthouse which was converted for William Penn in 1691.

James Murray of Broughton established it in the 1760s as the estate village for Cally, his country house.

The slip road on the left-hand side leads through to a grid-work of streets of Victorian houses, presumably built to house the miners who came to live in the area during the mining boom of

The bow- fronted house squeezed between the gate and the terrace of houses on the right offers luncheons and teas.

A pleasant, traffic-free scene with the horse and cart unattended, patiently waiting for the master's return from Illsley the saddlers.

The three cottages on the left were originally a house of c1580, with the further range added in c1800.

The three cottages on the left were originally a house of c1580, with the further range added in c1800.

Standing in front of a shop (now a private residence called Dial House), the sundial has been a prominent feature of Great Staughton since 1637.

Standing in front of a shop (now a private residence called Dial House), the sundial has been a prominent feature of Great Staughton since 1637.

There are several 18th-century houses along the edges of the green, which tapers south from Pitshanger Manor.

That house is now a shop, and the large building with the clock has been replaced with new houses. We can see the Crown Hotel towards the end of the road on the left.

Further up we can see the sign of the Black Horse. According to the deeds, this was built in November 1843 as a beer house.

This view shows Blue Boar Row, looking west towards the old Cheese Market and the Market House at the end.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-century rectory, and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality.