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This allowed them to corner the bulk of excursions out of Brighton and Eastbourne, and to gain a substantial foothold in the Isle of Wight and Hastings traffic.

The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.

The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.

This photograph looks north, and shows what became the focal point for the estate, with the branch library to the right on the corner of Corsham Road, and the parade of shops, including Bollom, dry

The Cock Hotel across the traffic lights has the police station and the Congregational Church beyond, while on the adjacent corner William Pile's shop has a window display of books, calendars and cards

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

This photograph looks northwards up the High Street to Donkey Lane and the 17th-century thatched Dormouse Cottage on the corner (centre).

Their crews or passengers arrive by car, coach or train, and the atmosphere is of gaiety and revelry with dialects from all corners of the country, and the sound of music from guitars, accordions and even

The corner shop on the left is Superdrug, and the Pack Horse Hotel is still there. The pedestrian crossing has been moved to be more convenient for shoppers, but not for car drivers!

Brought from London, it marked the north- eastern corner of contractor Thomas Docwra's Grove House estate.

St Swithun's Parish Church at Allington, now in the north-west corner of the extended Bridport borough, was consecrated in 1827 to replace the original medieval church to the west of the Vicarage, in what

Below, from Hope Corner to the stream that trickles beside the rowing boat, the beach was also donated to the Trust by playwright Robert Cedric Sherriff in 1966.

There are four corner turrets, each with rounded bartizans corbelled out, and the parapet has machicolations; this was an overhang that allowed defenders to drop missiles on the heads of uninvited

Teas are still being served on the corner of The Village and Arrowe Park Road at the Stone House Café (U36010, right), and the Horse and Jockey Hotel still occupies the junction of Rake Lane

The corner owes its name to Abraham Newlands, who owned nearby Postford Mill on the Tilling Bourne, where he made banknotes.

Although yet early, the mill by the roadside is already at work, and the forge of the blacksmith's shop at the Reigate Road corner is in full blast.

This is the Joymount corner of the town; the gardens, no longer there, mark where a governor of the castle, Sir Arthur Chichester, began to build a fine mansion in 1610.

A fine private house covered with Virginia creeper stands at the corner of Church Street in the distance.

The newsagent on the corner survived until recently, and the post office has moved up the road a little.

On the immediate left is the pump and a corner of the fine Market Hall, built in 1814 by local man John Perry; it was soon affectionately referred to as the Pepperbox and, more recently, as the Pepperpot

Then comes Superdrug on the corner of Vickers Lane (formerly Post Office Lane), and then Argos. Barclay's Bank is still at 64 Eastgate (extreme right).

Three doors down on the right, with a horse-drawn vegetable cart in front, is the Victoria Hotel, on the corner of King Street. I have enjoyed many a Sunday lunch there.

Then comes Superdrug on the corner of Vickers Lane (formerly Post Office Lane), and then Argos. Barclay's Bank is still at 64 Eastgate (extreme right).