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From the 18th century onwards houses and shops were built that were to bring the street its reputation for refined living.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

This Georgian building, photographed before it was partly destroyed by fire in 1966, houses the Polly Tea Rooms, which were established in 1928.

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

Leading away from the Market Place (the Market House is visible in the distance) is Silver Street. The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

The street is noted for its mid to late Georgian buildings, and distinctive pink and blue brick houses above lines of modern shop fronts.

The road leading to Chipstead Valley is dominated by Edwardian terraced houses on the right.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

The First Developments The first houses to be built were in a small pocket in Vange; No 61 Redgrave Road was the first to be occupied - the Walker family moved in in June 1951.

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.

From left to right we have the Kings (now Victoria) Tower; the Clarence Tower; the Chester Tower, which houses the library; and the Prince of Wales Tower.

On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

It subsequently belonged to Zaccheus Walker, who rebuilt the house in grand style, calling it The Hollies. It was the most imposing mansion in the neighbourhood, but it was demolished in 1937.

In return for granting permission to the GWR to build the line across his land, local landowner George Frederick Muntz demanded the provision of a station: houses and shops inevitably followed.

The disposal of sewage off Anchorsholme became an increasing problem as more and more houses were built. The photograph shows the old pumping station.

The building on the corner houses two large shops, a 'high class' grocer's and, next door, a confectioner's. Opposite is the post office, with a pillar box outside.

There are varied shops, good pubs and a fine church housing old paintings of the Hobart family and of the builder who constructed the church in 1496.

In 1925 the area was described as 'lined with houses of a superior character, many of which are retained by county families for summer occupation'.

The house beyond is the Forge, run by the Stone family, who were also parish sextons. Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Many of the houses along this street feature the locally made brown bricks.