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There is no change in this beautiful and tranquil scene as the river gently flows by the lovely thatched house onwards to Gibraltar Point.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel, which incorporates part of a 16th-century half-timbered house, and which is famous as a high-class restaurant, is on the left.

Its predecessor was St Edith's - a house of Ursuline Sisters at the southern end of the High Street. They celebrated Mass there from 1910 until they left the town three years later.

Today the building houses a small museum, which displays local history, archaeological artefacts found in the area, and mementoes of Thomas Hughes and Sir John Betjeman, who once lived in the village.

They are good examples of timber-framed houses with brick in-fill and casement windows. Today, owing to the expense of replacing thatch, both cottages have slate roofs.

The castle stands opposite Netley Abbey; most of the surrounding area has now been filled with housing. This extravagant building is located on the shore; it mostly dates from the late 19th century.

Some of the trees remain, while there is new housing, Saffrons Park and Court, behind the left hand flint walls, which also survive.

The Royal Aquarium, to the left, was built in 1875 to house a skating rink and aquarium: it later became a cinema.

It remains today, painted an eye-catching green and yellow, at the busy junction at the top of Broad Street, whilst the Wheel public house (left) was demolished in 1980 to make way for flats.

The rear wing of the furthest house has now been raised to two storeys. On the opposite corner is the garage.

The journey into Cornwall transported travellers into a land of unique beauty, remote brown stone hamlets and the poignant remains of deserted mines and engine houses.

It is built in the form of a clover leaf, and below the walls is a Tudor block house.

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

In due course, all the military installations were cleared from Hiltingbury Common; the area was developed into a large housing estate on one side and a recreation ground on the other.

Notice particularly the pot plants on the porch of the nearby house, and also the horse droppings in the roadway.

The toll house is the brick building on the left - a sign lists the charges, stating that because the bridge is privately owned, even soldiers on duty AND the Royal Family are obliged to pay to cross over

This picture shows a pond considerably bigger than that which remains today; beyond lies The Lamb public house.

As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

A Gothic-style house, it incorporated a Catholic chapel on the first floor, and was in use for services from 1886 until the year before this photograph was taken.

Two public houses here, the Red Cow and the Butchers Arms, have a long history.

In the foreground is the Old Poor House: note its original 16th-century chimneys and casements.

The roadway just had a few large private houses, until developers inserted the shopping parades and widened the carriageway in the 1930s.

Charles Towneley, the 'great collector' as he is sometimes known, had plans for the housing of his collection of classical antiquities at Towneley Hall.

Nestled in a fold of the Cotswolds, the neat village of Cornwell is one of a piece with the beautiful stone manor house just to the west, providing a unified design rare in Oxfordshire.