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A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

The rather odd looking and out-of-scale motor car in the centre of the road has been transplanted from another photograph - a common practice in the early days, used to prolong the life of a postcard

Mickleton Halt, costing some £512 when it opened in 1937, with shelters, an oil hut, and paraffin vapour lighting on both platforms, was listed for closure in 1941.

Both boys and girls were admitted, having first had to pass an entrance examination. Under the headmaster, Dr Edkins, the school was renamed Accrington Grammar School in 1921.

Opened in 1755, it is the third such building to occupy the site - both its predecessors were destroyed by fire.

Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade. It was refurbished and re- opened in July 1990.

This is another scene that has little changed: there is still a chemist's and candy shop on the right and garage on the left, minus petrol pumps.

This was taken to the left of photograph 29932, but now from the Walberswick side of the river. We can see the house with a large chimney stack in both photographs.

The International Stores was popular for groceries; also, note the many newspaper and magazine advertisements outside Martins, the newsagent's shop (right).

It is often advertised as being the only place in England from which one can watch the sun both rise and set over the sea.

Thomas Paine, the author of 'The Rights of Man' and participant in both the American and French revolutions, was born in Thetford in 1737.

It was in another of the town's inns, The Kings Arms, that Sir Walter Scott did the preparatory work and outline for his classic novel 'Kenilworth', set during the period of the last building phase of

A busy scene on the Esplanade above The Spa.

Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.

The Lamb and Flag Hotel, on the left beside the car, was another old inn which catered for travellers.

Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.

Yet another vanished Surrey watermill, testimony to a virtually forgotten source of power. This mill stood on the Pippbroook, a tributary of the Mole, but has now been demolished.

This view of the beach shows it in use by both holidaymakers and local fishermen.

There is one motor launch in the foreground and another on the right of the picture.

Arlington Mill served the locality as both a corn and cloth mill and has most recently been a countryside museum, with an excellent display about the life and works of William Morris.

It could be a Pierrot troupe, or even a minstrel show; both of these were popular acts at the time.

Dawlish began as two discrete hamlets, one inland by the parish church and another on the seashore, but quickly grew as the first visitors arrived to holiday in the late 18th century.

Another fine period piece, with onlookers watching the Frith photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the