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The town of Farnborough has grown enormously over the years, mainly because of its close proximity to Aldershot.

Blackwater, which shares its name with that of the river, lies just to the south of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

This packhorse bridge is one of the finest examples in England.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

The Hemel Hempstead Cricket Club plays at Heath Park, and Boxmoor Cricket Club plays on the 'Oval' in St John's Road. Hemel Hempstead (Camelot) Rugby Club use Chaulden Meadow.

This was once part of a quiet residential area, with orchards and gardens.

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat

The bandstand was the original feature at the end of the pier, and the Royal Italian Band (advertised on one of the kiosks on the landward end) were one of the first visiting bands to have

This picture shows the ruin of the donjon. The curtain wall was once a lot higher, but was reduced when the castle was slighted during the English Civil War.

The buildings on the corner of High Street and The Broadway were named Warwick Mansions.

A Saxon hill village, known as Gumeninga Hergae, or the shrine of Guma's people, in 767, it has now become well and truly subsumed into suburbia, and into Betjeman folklore through his poem of the same

The Beaumont Arms, named after the lord of the manor, was originally a gaol and courthouse in the 14th century. The original cells with stone beds are still in the basement.

The site had been used as an overflow for Thomas Coram's Bloomsbury Foundling Hospital, but had passed to the estate of nearby Ashlyns Hall prior to its purchase in 1929.

St Mary's was the site of the premature funeral of Matthew Wall. When he 'died' in 1574, one of the bearers slipped on the wet leaves, dropped his coffin and broke the lid.

By 1899 we see that the old two-storey bay window of the Cock Inn has gone, to be replaced by a new shop front installed by Mr Fairburn, who had moved his chemist's and druggist's business

The Monks' Pond (or lake) lies to the south east of the priory ruins on Whitby Lane.

The saviour was a young girl whose family had been dispossessed of their property; this was immediately restored to them and the Tudor rose, the family emblem of the Tudors which shows the union

Top Locks was the end of the Bridgewater Canal system - it had come all the way from Manchester and Worsley.

The land on which Kendal Castle stands was acquired through marriage by Ivo de Taillebois, and it is he who is thought to have built the original 11th-century fortress.

Protected on three sides by water, the rock was the ideal location for a fortification; for around six hundred years it was the capital of the Kingdom of Strathclyde.

This fine old 17th- century farmhouse, built in a mixture of materials, stone, brick, tile-hanging and long straw thatch, is typical of the area around Marlborough.

In contrast to the Early English Gothic of the Congregational Church of 1886, now the United Reformed Church, on the east side of the Broadway, the Baptists chose Perpendicular Gothic for their 1901 church

The forerunner of secondary modern schools and comprehensives, Waller Street School was established during the period when extended education beyond the age of 10 was unusual.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.