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The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

A temporary memorial was set up near the Market House before this one was built.

Although retaining the form of an earlier 17th-century house, the building is essentially a drastic remodelling of 1814 by Sir Henry Halford, formally Henry Vaughan, a successful medical practitioner

In the broad High Street old inns, houses, small shops and buildings in honey-coloured local stone jostle in a medley of complementary styles.

The range of houses and outbuildings offer some refreshments, and the odd fishing boat to hire.

Diagonally opposite is Cheam Baptist Church, constructed on land which was formerly the angle of the garden of West Cheam Manor House.

The Market House is one of the finest in Gloucestershire, and dates from 1655.

Having for some years partly been occupied by an army college, it is now a private house, the home of William Parente, Prince of Castel Viscardo, a grandson of the 7th Duke of Portland.

The village stocks still survive near the church, and so does the pigeon-house to Amwellbury.

One such attack was made against Lydney, where Sir John Winter, Royalist commander in the Forest of Dean, lived in the heavily fortified White House.

Car drivers using the shop, post box or phone (on the left) must have caused an obstruction on this narrow part of the main road, and since this photograph was taken, the house on the right was demolished

A red brick village, it has a number of good vernacular houses. Those in the photograph demonstrate the restrained quality of its late Georgian

Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele tower dating from the 1100s, modernised around 1450, and a farm house or family hall, added in the late 14th century.

This view is now marred, to put it mildly, by the concrete eyesore of the Moat House Hotel, 14 storeys of 1960s aggression: but there are good views from the rooms, no doubt.

Apart from the White Horse, little on the right side of Shortmead Street survives.

Now swamped by housing estates, the High Street was mainly pedestrianised. However, a substantial amount was demolished, and more is soon to go at the south end.

Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house. There were once 2,500 cabinet making shops in London, many employing children.

Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house. There were once 2,500 cabinet making shops in London, many employing children.

Later the Town Library, belonging to the Corporation - formed in the 17th and 18th centuries - was housed here.

The Lighthouse was built by Trinity House on Anvil Point between 1880 and 1882, to fill the perilous gap between the rocks on Portland and the next cluster around the Isle of Wight.

Miss Moxon would entertain Sunday schools from the Manchester slums in her garden at West Bank, and in the Second World War would always open her house to the evacuees no one else wanted.

The view looks westwards from the foothills of Ridge Cliff to Seatown hamlet (centre left) and Mill House and Mill Lane (lower right), which was concrete-covered in the Second World War to enable the large-scale

It opened in 1884, and Dormans Park was laid out with houses in treed plots - the roads are still gravelled.

The building still houses a shop, the Village Stores and Post Office, but the pillar box (in use in this view) has been moved to the right-hand side of the shop front.