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Woolworth's displays its original American house style above the shop front, and the chemist two doors away has yet to feel the effects of the corporate marketing soon to alter the town's purchasing habits

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just

Now the town council offices, it dates from around 1540; it has had a number of previous uses, including being the town Poor House (from 1762 to 1854), then a post office, an undertaker's and a wheelwright's

The massive circle of stones virtually encompasses the village; here, we can see the Red Lion pub (the white gabled building), the chapel on the right, and domestic thatched housing all inside a stone

The Connaught Cafe, seen here on the left, is now a private house, but the post office next door remains.

The shop has gone and is now a private house.

It was demolished six months later, and new houses were built in the park. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the village whilst writing his novel 'Ivanhoe'.

Much of the market trade was performed in the public houses which lined the High Street.

The marshland is part of the Parrog and now houses a thriving caravan park.

All the houses on the left went to make way for the inner ring road and its roundabout; the gable on the far right belongs to The Armoury pub, which does survive.

This village is virtually the creation of its 19th-century rector, Joseph Relph, who built large numbers of houses to double its size, including Tarrs Inn, which we can see in this view, with

Most houses are two-storey, and the archway on the left leads into St James Mews, a shopping centre. The cupola in the distance belongs to Blake Hall, part 18th-century but mostly of 1911.

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside

The roughly rectangular Market Place (or village green) with its medieval cross is surrounded by attractive houses with shops on the east side.

During the Second World War, the Kent-born film director Michael Powell and his Archers production company featured the town and its oak beamed houses in his famous propaganda epic, 'A Canterbury Tale'

A number of these houses have been converted into shops to cater for the visitors and pilgrims who flock to this town and visit the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The mill house was the home of Golding Constable and his family from 1765 to 74, and it remained in their possession until the 1840s. Flour was taken downstream by lighters to Mistley for London.

Beyond is Pillar House, a timber-framed building with a Victorian brick façade. On the next corner is the 16th-century Bull (John Esling was the landlord), now closed.

At the end of the parade of shops on the right is the post office, and in the distance Broxmore, housing the doctor's surgery, stood on the site of the present Oakdene Parade.

The nearby parade once housed a sweetshop, a hairdresser's and a shoe shop – all long gone. The town's Regal Cinema closed in 1970, and is now used as a supermarket.

The Cambrian Hotel (left) stood on the site which had housed the Milford Arms since 1680 – it was renamed in 1870. The terrace was built c1865.

The Cambrian Hotel (left) stood on the site which had housed the Milford Arms since 1680 – it was renamed in 1870. The terrace was built c1865.

On the left is the front wall and schoolmaster's house of the Elementary School of 1853 and 1896. The grassy banks remain, but they have been straightened and tamed.