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The County Magistrates' Court ran on simple and firm sets of rules, relying on moral and ethical principles as much as on legislature.

Between Roman Road and Roman Court lies the site of a Roman bath house, but the most tangible reminder of the Roman presence in this area is the fort which stands in the middle of the New Kilpatrick

At the right in both views is Temple Island, the start of the course, with its gar- den temple by James Wyatt, erected in 1771 as a fishing lodge for Sambrook Freeman of Fawley Court.

They date to the height of the resort's fame, when King George III and his court spent each summer in Weymouth during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Victorian tennis authorities had suggested that the ball should be allowed to bounce twice to give the ladies time to get about the court, but the idea was rejected.

West Court is behind the trees.

This is the frontage of Wykes Court when it was the home of Major George Murray Dammer.

Incidentally, it was in the castle that Dickie Pearce, England's last court jester, died while midway through a performance.

A Television Regular The Stafford building most often shown on television is without doubt that of the Law Courts, frequently appearing on Midland news broadcasts at the time of major trials.

Nearby is Corsham Court, a large manor house built in Elizabethan style. Thomas Smythe of London, haberdasher and Collector of the Customs, erected it in 1582.

The creeper-covered house on the right is Cheam Court Farmhouse.

A lady walks briskly across Station Way towards Cheam Court and the local branch of Teekoff, which had a sister establishment in the Cheam Road at Sutton.

greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.The right-hand side of the building at the end of the path was at one time the old Court

transformed in around 1910 into a mansion, and its barn and the stables at the left converted to houses; the other farmbuildings have been demolished, and their site is occupied by school tennis courts

St George's Hall is unique, being a combination of two law courts, a concert hall, a theatre, a jail and cells. This is one of the finest buildings in the whole of Great Britain.

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

To the left, the bell turret belongs to the Old Court House and former police station, built a little earlier in 1861.

Lloyds bank has gone, and its premises are now called Bargate House, and the tall lime tree in the garden of Vine Court (left of centre) is no more.

The enormous popularity of messing about on the River Thames during the Victorian era is demonstrated in this scene of the crowded lock at Molesey, just upstream from Hampton Court; it had been linked

On the right is the new police station, with the Petty Sessions Division and Magistrates' Court (later demolished). Further down is the Post Office, erected in 1889.

Bowls was one of the most popular seaside holiday pastimes and every resort had at least one bowling green, supplemented by lawn tennis courts in some cases, and of course by the more lighthearted

The present church of 1860, by G E Street, the architect of London's Law Courts, is a simple flint church with brick bands and stone dressings. Its churchyard acquired a Millennium lych gate in 2000.

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

As well as the usual statutory facilities, such as tennis courts and a football ground, there is an attractive series of lakes and ponds, as well as Broomfield House with its stableyard, an early 18th-century