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Beyond we can see some of the 1950s houses fronting Main Street.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Sun lounges were in fashion, partly thanks to George Bernard Shaw, who had his entire house fitted out with windows of Vita glass.

The houses of Clapham Common North Side, part of the busy A3 London to Portsmouth Road, are visible through the trees.

Like other interesting buildings in the area, it joined the holiday industry and became a guest house. Its image can be found on many calendars throughout the country.

Since this photograph was taken, the aptly named Castle Inn has closed and been converted into houses. It still retains its characteristic frontage.

Its 18th-century coaching inn is of similar age to the house of Thomas Turner, who built a folly tower nearby and shared with the villagers his pond and lawns, which became the large village green.

Here the village is seen from the churchyard, which adjoins a beautiful Jacobean manor house. The triangle with the phone box was once a grassy area where there were hustings at election times.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

In 1890, visitors looking westwards from Worthing's pier would have seen terraces of Georgian lodging houses interspersed with a few newly erected Victorian buildings, such as the Clear View Hotel shown

The growth is self-evident here, with Brooke House's massive V-shaped struts in the background (left) and the post office under construction.

It was originally four separate premises - a house, a pub, an off-licence and a bookmaker.

In the 15th century the cave was put to use as a smugglers' den before it was later converted into a pigeon house.

The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s. It faces the war memorial, erected in 1921-22 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

The village lies in the north-east corner of Hampshire, in an area of the county now strewn with busy roads and saturated with housing developments.

The George Hotel is now a private house. The garage beyond it, with a fake timber-framed frontage, has long gone.

The turreted building in the centre of this photograph is Vale Tower, built in the 1830s as Romanoff House, a school run by Thomas Allfree - he had been tutor to the Russian royal family

The High Street runs down between pollarded lime trees and mellow stone houses to the River Windrush.

She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

In the far distance beyond the road sign is now a housing estate.

Initially a defensible tower, it was later given over to civic purposes: a court and a police station were housed here. Until 1974 the council used to meet in the room above the clock.

Initially a defensible tower, it was later given over to civic purposes: a court and a police station were housed here.

It is now converted to a private house.

If you need it, here is the evidence of unchanged houses over sixty years, although fish and chips are now on the national menu.