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West Bank winds up the hill towards the significantly-named Miners' Standard public house on the hill above the village.

This parade was built in the years prior to the Second World War, as Pitsea's houses began to inch along Rectory Road.

Very little has changed, except that the unsightly telegraph poles have now gone, along with the shutters on St Nicholas House to the right.

The ground floor, on the far side of the building, once housed old hand-operated fire engines.

The Bell public house, on the right, has a more modern frontage; otherwise little has changed, except that Pubmaster have replaced Ind Coope as the providing brewery.

The Lock Heather Guest House and Post Office, with its pillar-type post-box outside the front gate, was an indication of changing times.

This wheel, built in 1820, worked the old tannery, now the Combe House Hotel. It lies at the foot of Holford Glen, the scene of many walks taken by Coleridge and Wordsworth, who lived nearby.

Hidden away behind the Green Man Inn, the Red Lion is nowadays a popular, floodlit public house, painted a glowing orange but retaining the thatched roof.

Cliff House was built in the mid 19th century by the Pease family, who owned the nearby Upleatham Ironstone Mines. It was sold to the Holiday Fellowship organisation before the Second World War.

Beyond the railway-like gate is the blacksmith's house.

This attractive little town of slate-hung houses is five miles inland from the sea.

The Posting House on the right is a reminder of the earlier age of horse-drawn transport.

This, like the one at the Tower of London, housed the castle chapel. In fact only the sub-chapel survived, because the chapel in the storey above was removed during the 1683 demolition.

The Boat House on the right of this view was one of the earliest buildings of Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's holiday village to be completed in 1911, even before the Meare itself was finished.

Notice also the Clock House – so-called because of the clock on the side of the building.

In the background is the Monument, rising over the roofs of Adelaide House, home of the Pearl Assurance Company.

There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House.

Known affectionately as 'The Pepperpot', Godalming's attractive market house of 1814 stands at the junction of three streets in central Godalming.

Partially destroyed by fire in 1933, it stopped production in 1952 and is now a private house.

Beyond were firstly Roman houses and then Anglo-Saxon: all were cleared to make the outer bailey for the Norman castle. Behind are the tree-clad ramparts of the inner bailey along the ridge.

This medieval inn with characteristic ranges on each side of the yard reached through the carriageway, was in fact a 15th-century house converted to an inn about 1500.

However, eventually many substantial houses and a pier were built. Here we see donkeys lined up ready to delight the children.

Wash Road was a road of many farms: Watch-House, Mundell's, Petchey's, Benson's, Puckle's, Sellers, and Laindonponds.

Today an active yacht club with a prestigious club house brings activity to this creek.