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We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.

George Richardson's early career was spent as a draughtsman in the office of Robert and James Adam, and indeed he was a fine interior designer in the Adam style, providing a number of drawings for Kedleston

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

Devonshire Buildings and Pulteney Buildings (centre) have those rounded corners that are so characteristic of Georgian Weymouth.

This pub should technically be called The New Railway Inn, because it stands on the site of a former inn of the same name.

Parked by the side of Kings Road and opposite the memorial are a gleaming black Rover 14, a Riley 1.5 and an early F-type Vauxhall Victor.

This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.

This photograph shows Witton Gilbert's war memorial in its original position on part of the dene on a popular and well used walk down to a bathing hole where people used to swim, and where parents brought

Circling the lake, which is nearly a third of a mile long and 200 yards wide in places, is a miniature railway. It deviates briefly into the parkland, as shown in this view.

The Village 1894 Frith's photographer paused a mile or so west of Storrington in the hamlet of Cootham.

Continuing south-east across Ashdown Forest, the tour finishes at Uckfield, a town now by-passed and the terminus of a commuter railway line to London, the continuation to Lewes having been closed.

We can see part of the old post office, now a heating and plumbing shop (left), and the entrance to the precinct on the right.

This view looks east, and shows the bridge across Grange Vale, a road that connects the Brighton Road with the residential areas of Grange Road, Worcester Road and Mulgrave Road.

In fact much of the village was cleared in the 1750s to provide the grounds of Latimer House. Edward Blore rebuilt Latimer House in the 1830s, now offices for Price Waterhouse Cooper.

The main Grand Union Canal, as the Grand Junction Canal later became, is on the right.

Here the photographer looks south-east from the East Street junction past Hyatts Yard and, past the gable of Zion Hall, to White Lion Yard with the roof of the Trinity Baptist Church beyond, whose

It has always been an extremely important church as a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The least attractive part of the town centre is the forecourt to the underground station, which is also used as a bus station.

Rifleman in East Street, a Canadian soldier was arrested and taken to the police station in Ashley Road, despite the complaints of his friends.

Three years in the building, the Town Hall opened on 17 April 1889, and this day was proclaimed a public holiday in the town. The Italianate style reflected the prosperity of this weaving community.

Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.

Although the bridge which spanned the entrance to Marlowes was dirty and shabby, over 500 people watched it being demolished at midnight on 6 July 1960.