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In this photograph, taken a few years after 56473 (pages 30-31), horse carriages still await their fares in the centre of Brook Street.

Eynesbury very much plays second fiddle to the town of St Neots, from which it is separated only by the Hen Brook.

This view shows Brook Street with its cantilever railway bridge, removed after the line closed between Ilkley and Morecambe.

This railway bridge over Brook Street was taken down a year after the last train to Skipton left Ilkley on 20 March 1965.

The Post Office and Stores (centre) run by C J Brook closed in 2002. On the left, the rounded brick building is now part of Hollingsworth's butcher's shop.

The proprietor of J L Brooks' ironmongery shop has not yet opened the shop's wrought iron entrance gate.

Little has changed in this view of the brook running through the estate village. On the left, the old bakery is now augmented by a tea room.

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

The two men with the horse are not far from the brook which runs through Downham - it is the haunt of white ducks and mallard.

The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.

Chipping Brook once powered five water mills - one is now a restaurant called the Water Mill. Wolfen Mill made bobbins, then became a cheese factory.

It is celebrated in an ode by war poet Rupert Brooke from 1910, in which he wishes he was there because he arrived after it had closed for the night, and had to book into an uncomfortable alternative

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

The road crosses a brook in the middle distance, a tributary of the young River Cherwell.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

The bridge in question crosses the Windle Brook. On the left is the Three Mariners pub, an 18th- century building, but standing beyond it now are overscaled two-storey offices.

Looking back towards Boutport Street in 1903, Brook's is still a cafe. It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.

Fact File (David Brooks) New houses in Clarendon Park, where Long Grove Hospital stood.

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

It is an ancient fording point on Sherborne Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush. Many of the neat stone cottages, like the ones we see here, were lived in by workers on the Sherborne Estate.

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

For some 100 years it was the residence of successive members of one family: James Brooks came to Odiham in 1818 to join an attorney's partnership, and his descendants continued as solicitors in

The Hall belonged to the Charnock, the Brooke and the Parker families before Reginald Tatton gave it to the town as part of a memorial to the local men who gave their lives in the First World War

It looks north over the wide, flat, formerly marshy valley of the River Arun and the Amberley Wild Brooks, and west to the narrowing valley as the river cuts through the South Downs.