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Behind, Manor Park House can be seen before it was demolished in 1976. The site was used for the new Central Library.

On the lane south from the crossroads the last two houses on the left are timber-framed, the White Cottage on the left with original framing in the side elevation and fake to the front.

The roof of the Market House, to the left of the picture, dates back to the 16th century and was preserved when road-widening operations took place in 1937.

Modern housing and indus- trial development crowd in from all directions, making it almost impossible to stand here and spot passing liners on Southampton Water.

The post office cum garage is now a house named, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office. To the left is the churchyard wall.

It was known as The Coffee House in 1983.

Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

These payments were collected at the toll, or pyke, house, the octagonal, Gothic-style building pictured here. Above the doorway is the list of 'Tolls authorised to be taken at this gate.

Above the trees is the Water Tower, disguised as the House in the Clouds.

The central house was the post office until 1997. The further building is the Lord Nelson, whose sign has been moved to the car park. Note the classic bubble car of the period (right).

A real coach party - that is, a party using a coach and horses - arrives at the stable block at Haddon Hall. The bowler-hatted gentlemen alight to face the climb up to the house.

A shooting lodge became the Youth Hostel and later housed the post office.

In the 1960s, the pace of building new housing quickened. Caton is popular as a retreat for commuters, who enjoy the moorland country near by with its fine views of Morecambe Bay.

The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

His work is commemorated in a memorial near the seashore, on the site of a house where he lived.

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

The Central Stores, now owned by V A and A E Geach, is in business today and provides important service to the local community, while the house ahead with the gabled attic rooms is now

Modern houses proliferate in Tanworth now, but the old chestnut tree (glimpsed top left) still casts a shade over the green, and the Bell Inn (top and bottom left), across the road from the

Looking West We are looking across the lake to the houses in Durham Street, with the Presbyterian church roof in the centre of the picture, and the Holy Rood Roman Catholic church on

Converted to a house, the upper floor now has many more windows, including a dormer window above the weatherboarded section in the middle.

The Lifeboat House is now a museum dedicated to the history and development of the R.N.L.I.

Three hundred feet above the sea, this white-painted Victorian lighthouse housed a two-ton turntable operating the revolving light.

On the right is an Ind Coope pub, The Old House at Home, a landmark for bargees on the River Medway. The pub had been rebuilt in 1914 and had been in the family of Captain Ruthvens for 102 years.

The former Huntsman and Hounds public house is now mostly hidden by trees.