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The building is surprisingly unpompous for the period and looks more like an affluent private house, or a village school, than a civic building.

The cottages beyond are mid 19th-century, the outer ones bow-fronted, and much less grand than the six tall houses with bay windows extending up to the roof which date from the 1880s and are part of

A cart horse of Dickens & Co, brewers and wine and spirits merchants, waits patiently between trips. Lighter loads were taken around town by handcart.

The city's principal civic building, it houses the Assembly Room and Mayor's Parlour. The niched effigies on the facade are of Charles I, Charles II and Queen Anne.

Sandsend Station in the foreground is now a private house. The Sandsend Hotel (1899), centre, so dependent on rail links, has now been converted to apartments.

Stone from neglected Sawley Abbey was purloined and built into house walls – an example is the bay windows at 16th-century Little Mearley Hall near Pendleton. By 1904 the ruins were covered in ivy.

The corrugated iron building was purchased in 1959 to house the Sunday School, but it was later moved by the Scouts and Cubs to use as their HQ.

In 1959 Mrs Stella Hotblack bought the Priory and promptly gave it to the Sussex Archaeological Society, a pro-active antiquarian society that also owns Anne of Cleves House Museum in Lewes

The King's Head has gone for a 1960s parade of shops with flats over, Arndale House, while much on the left has also been rebuilt.

Hundreds of locals came to see it, and 'tarmacadam' became a huge success.This is the Shirburne's village; it was started by the family to house estate workers, and servants from nearby Stonyhurst,

Summertime flash floods are a fact of life at Upwey, where the River Wey flows southwards beside Church Street to Westbrook Farm and the Manor House.

The mill, on the south bank of the Great Ouse, later became a hosiery factory, and has now been converted into a prestige housing complex.

The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

The Grand Hotel of 1898 by Cecil Ogden (1858-1944) dominates its southern end, while the rather exuberant Turkey Cafe of 1901 by Arthur Wakerley and the Victoria Coffee House of 1888 by Edward

The house, now known as the Gables, looks much the same, apart from removal of the creepers and chimneys.

This house with its early 18th-century front was bought by the then rector, James King, and given 'in perpetuity' as a residence for the rectors of Henley.

Barrett & Sons, bakers, proudly advertise that they sell Hovis bread (left), and the Kings Arms public house that it serves Benskins bitter (centre right).

At the time of writing, this remarkable building is visually threatened by a proposal to build an estate of run-of-the-mill houses and flats on the redundant RAF Stanmore, immediately to the west of the

In the late 1890s, the Black Lion public house was extensively altered and restored by Mr Glasscock; by removing the plaster and exposing the windows, he attempted to return the building to its original

The site of the annual horse fair up to the early 1900s, it is named after the Bell public house, which stood opposite the sack hoist at the maltings.

This a row of typical seaside hotels and boarding houses, and it still looks the same.

The Prince Albert public house is at the end of the road, hidden by trees.

There was a bakery by the mill house. The mill is now being restored by its owner. Iron electricity poles line the road; they are of a type only seen in this part of Sussex.