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We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street. The scene appears very quiet, with only one car and a cyclist to be seen.

'A walk through the streets on a summer's day half-a- century ago ... was different in many respects.

At the top of Sceptre Hill on the way to Tonbridge stands the Hand and Sceptre Hotel; built in 1663, it became an inn in 1728, serving during this time as a district court.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

The Verneys of Claydon House in Middle Claydon, now a National Trust house, bought Steeple Claydon in 1705 from the Chaloner family, who are commemorated in the village road, Chaloners Hill.

Down a tiny lane off the main street, we find the charming 19th-century church of St Gregory.

It is washday again; this time the linen is pegged on a line on Tate Hill sands. Washing machines were almost unknown at this date, and owned only by rich people.

This is part of Old Leigh, with the railway on the right and the sea behind the buildings on the left.

On the right is the Mole Valley Council Offices, opened in 1984; the building is not in keeping with the character of the town, but architecturally it is a good design.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

Crown Street connects the Bullock Market and Market Hill. It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.

Rising on Lamb Hill Fell, the river now runs into the Stock Reservoir and then resumes its wandering in North Lancashire.

Frith's photographer originally titled this as 'The Walk', which was the old Lyme name for the upper length of Marine Parade long into the 20th century.

This view shows Eype Mouth, looking westwards to what is now a National Trust skyline, with Ridge Cliff and Doghouse Hill rising into the 508-feet summit of Thorncombe Beacon (centre).

The camera looks north, with Old Schools on the left; this is effectively the original Harrow School building of 1608, with the wing seen here added by C R Cockerell in 1819.

(Marion Hill) This view, taken from about the same point as ZZZ05124, below, shows the surviving facade of the LNWR's fire station (now a music shop).When it opened in 1911, it was 'very well-equipped

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

This photograph was taken to capture the early days of the Antrim Road as a superior residential area of Belfast.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

The statue is of the fourth Marquis of Downshire, the 11th descendant of the Hills of Hillsborough.