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The Tudor-style building at the end was constructed in 1940, and above that on the magnificent Chevin is the White House, a former barn, later used as refreshment rooms for the Victorian perambulators.

It has functioned as a concert hall and meeting-house. The near absence of motor cars makes street scenes such as this seem quite alien to us now.

The Old House Hotel, left, later became Baines Private Hotel and Tea-rooms. The Town Hall of 1890 (right) became the Working Men's Club and Institute, and the Angel Inn closed in 1907.

Next door is a fine town house, now a restaurant, but which at the time of this photograph was occupied by a pawnbroker, whose sign of three gold balls can be seen on the upper storey.

Next door is a fine town house, now a restaurant, but which at the time of this photograph was occupied by a pawnbroker, whose sign of three gold balls can be seen on the upper storey.

The access road to the Delapre estate can be seen (left), and Roger's Cottage, beside Long's Lane, is in the distance (left of centre), with houses Nos 76 to 68 being in the near distance (right of centre

Chideock House on the left was, at this time, known as Myrtle Cottage, with a Mrs Bindloss as its inhabitant. Beyond are an obscured Bridge Cottage, By the Stream , and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

Here we see Cloister House on the left, opposite the old village pump. The parish church of St Mary has been much altered over the years, but its origins lie in the 11th century.

fish and chip shops sited directly opposite the Pied Bull pub needs no further comment, but one has to question the suitability of the branch of a national bank - apparently located in two converted houses

Adjacent to the public house was the range of New Swindon Co-operative Society shops, comprising menswear, footwear, shoe repairs, drapery, confectionery and grocery stores.

To celebrate these two new extensions a full-dress ball was held, and the money raised went to the Baths and Wash-House Fund.

Outside at its east end is Wing's monument to William Fortrey, and close by is the 17th-century Fortrey manor house.

It did have areas of back-to-back houses for the newly-imported workers, but there were never the slums of the older towns and cities. Soon Birkenhead became a town.

To celebrate these two new extensions a full-dress ball was held, and the money raised went to the Baths and Wash-House Fund.

The etching on the windows, 'Magistrates Room' and 'Solicitors Room', reminds us that the Magistrates' Courts were also housed here for many years.

Construction began in 1089 on a site where there had been ecclesiastical houses of one sort or another since 681.

In the 1930s the toll was 8d for a car, quite expensive at a time when a craftsman earned 1s 2d per hour.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

On the other side of Bull Street (right of photograph) is the Big Window public house, one of Burnley's best known inns, and in that row were Bulcock's the ironmongers and Bowker's the tobacconist.

Staff lived in the four Guard House Cottages (right of centre). The verandah is on Seatown Villa (right).

The openness of the village centre is striking, with some good later 18th/early 19th-century houses ranging either side of the grass-banked brook, with its modest urban district council railings

This view within the courtyard of the castle shows it after the 1770s stripping out to a hollow shell for the building of Herstmonceux Place, a house designed by Samuel Wyatt.

The arid area of grass and the 1950s housing (both family and sheltered) could, with a lightness of touch, have provided a more special entrance to the village from the north, under the shadow of

The village was built around the Manor House, later surrendered to Henry VIII after the dissolution. It was sold in 1591and later bought by the Liverpool sugar trader, Richard Watt, in 1783.