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The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

Two ox heads above granite pillars on the left indicate the Market House entrance, erected in 1840 for meat, poultry and butter.

On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen

But the Post Office still occupies this same house, even if it is much modernised and extended. Sadly, the little circle of grass has long since fallen victim to the demands of modern traffic.

The building today is a private dwelling, Waterloo House.

The Elephant and Castle, a great meeting place of thoroughfares, was termed a 'ganglion of roads' by Dickens in 'Bleak House'.The squat old inn that gave it its name dominates the scene, and is

Little of the original priory has survived, but parts of it may have been used when Priory House in the foreground was built in around 1700.

The skiffs and punts available for hire across the water are from what is now the Great House Hotel.

Six people lived in this two-bedroomed house; it belonged to David Lloyd George's uncle, the village shoemaker, who had offered his widowed mother a home.

Overlooking the scene is the grand building and clock tower housing Barclays Bank.

The shops and houses to the right of the church have all gone; now, trees form the boundary. The whole scene is overlooked by the tower and steeple of St Peter and St Paul's church.

Originally the village extended no further than Back Lane, Coldstream Lane, the High Street and the houses in the vicinity of the green, which we see in this photograph.

This picture shows the village post office, delightfully housed in a picturesque thatched cottage. Most of Milton Malsor's buildings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the distance to the north, earlier housing estates, mostly Pre-War and 1950s, can be seen - the Development Corporation plans mainly expanded the town to the south and north-east.

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

Islip remains a small village, with mostly stone cottages and houses. This view looks through the 1903 lychgate towards the crocketted spire of the 15th-century parish church.

The Victorian Gothic pile of a country house is now Overstone Park School, situated in the centre of the vast park. This view was taken by the eastern lake.

Next door there is now a bookmaker, and the Trustee Savings Bank building now houses Messrs Dexter & Sharp, who are accountants.

Brecon House (third from left) operated as a telegraphic office and later as the village telephone exchange until 1937 – a new automated system forced relocation.

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

In 1921 the estate covered 245 acres, of which 194 were scheduled for a variety of uses including parkland, housing schemes, allotments and so on.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.