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The Bridge House Hotel, seen to the left of the bridge, claimed that it was the only top class hotel in Eton. It was demolished in 1964 and a new restaurant has taken its place.

Behind are the chimneys of its vicarage, while on the right is the church hall gable, now demolished for the modern close of houses, Trapp Court.

Chorleywood is on the south side of the Chess valley. Chorleywood Common survived an attempt at enclosure and we see it here in its late 19th-century gorse-covered state.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

On the left is the white render of the former Brandon's department store, a somewhat overpowering building, and to the right of The Cock Tavern is the 1950s neo-Georgian Barclays Bank,

The three-storey framed building on the left must have been very new when this photograph was taken.

It is interesting to remember that a settlement existed on this site for nearly two millennia before the foundation of neighbouring Bournemouth.

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

A number of Stradling family members fought for King Charles I during the Civil War, including Sir Edward Stradling, who commanded a Welsh regiment at the Battle of Edgehill (23 October 1642), where he

Lord's Mill was one of the main watermills along the Chess south-east of Chesham and is behind the photographer who is looking over the Moor Lane bridge parapet.

During the 1950s the site of Barlborough Colliery was cleared, but in 1955 there was an attempt by the NCB to re- open Southgate Colliery in Clowne.

All Saints' Church dominates the scene, and the only change is the removal of the smaller second cottage of Long Croft, left. It is now a drive for the adjacent gable-ended Rose Cottage.

Shepley is situated to the south of Huddersfield.

Now let out as 'honeymoon cottages' (fully booked for Valentine's Day 2003), they have a new lease of life.

Here we have another view of the White Bull Hotel, with Thomas, the grocer's, J N Kelley, and G L Owen the newsagent's nearby. A weekly farmers' market is held in the Square.

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.

Listed in the Domesday Book as 'Eleacier', the town's name tells us that this was once 'Aelle's field or ploughed land'.

The inn's name, the Foresters' Arms, hints that the village stands on the southern hilly fringe of Ashdown Forest. The inn was originally a private house - it was first a licensed premises in 1898.

The next building has been demolished, and so has the whole of the right side of the street.

The railway (in the 1950s the LNER's east coast main line) brought further prosperity; this included the building of a new town hall in the 1860s, seen here with its clock tower.

The New Inn, sporting its new Watney's Red Barrel sign by the door and the sign board with the house style lettering, stands up the hill in Road Weedon on the old London to Holyhead turnpike.

After the First World War, there were plans to divide Westley Heights into 231 small plots of land and offer them for development.

We are looking north along Wallasey Village, with the bollards at the top of Leasowe Road visible on the left. The cobbled street to the immediate left, just beyond the chemists, is Lycette Road.