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The staithe at Belaugh has been tidied since this picture was taken, and houses have been built on the land across the road.

Grevel House, in nearby Grevel Street, belonged to the prosperous wool merchant William Grevel, supposedly the model for the merchant in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'.

The picturesque tree-lined avenue of Brotton contains some fine residences, including, just to the right of this picture, Brotton Hall, a fine Georgian stone house, now converted into

A gentleman stands at the door of Crag Hill House, perhaps calling over to the man walking his dog. Two children sit by the roadside playing near the sign for a café.

The north wing, which is jettied on a moulded wood bressumer, remains half-timbered; the south wing was rebuilt in the 19th century to house the parish hall.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

For those of you who know Mooragh Promenade, the gaps between the terraces are not due to demolition; the houses were never built.

To the north-east, houses have been built up to Charlton Nature Reserve.

The public house is the Plough Inn, offering clientele Bushell, Watkins and Smith's local?Westerham ales. On the left, behind the white picket fence, is a small shop advertising Sunlight soap.

Bond's was a department store – 'The House For Value and Distinctive Ideas'. It was justly proud of its restaurant (advertised on the banner), as it was a stylish and popular meeting-place.

In its later years, the house became a hotel, which was bought in 1939 by the Southern Railway Co.

The tall chimney next door rises above a bread oven, whose rounded shape protrudes from the wall of the house.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house; it was built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

The house was designed in the baronial style by Scott himself, and built between 1817 and 1824 complete with steam central heating.

The two figures on the eyot in the millpond are Jonah and his wife, reputedly brought to Turvey in 1844 from Ashridge House in Hertfordshire.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

In 1854 his heir, Alexander Beresford-Hope, cased the house in Wealden sandstone and added another storey in the English Gothic style. Today it is a private school.

Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849. Next door is Bartlett & Cain the drapers.

The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments. However, there is still a good view from the Norman St Margaret's Church.

It is one of two bridges in the village - the other one at Bridge End dates from the 17th century, and features a tiny toll house with a 3½ ft (1m) high doorway.

Just behind, a cyclist passes the swinging sign of the Green Man public house, which partially obscures the advertising sign for the baker's shop of T G Dunfold.

In the village stands a fine 17th-century house, The Cross, and the magnificent All Saints' Church (centre left).

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.