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Sailing barges are moored on the river.

In King Street, east of the castle, this church has been redundant since 1981.

The Red Lion's conservatory has been replaced and stripped of the creeper.

Now long-disused, this is one of many 19th-century pump mills built to lift water from the drained marshes. The mill has now lost its sails, but not its inverted boat-style cap.

In fact, visitors threading their way around the streets can admire a splendid array of Georgian and Victorian architecture.

Sandgate Castle, built in 1573, was so altered in 1806 to make a defence against the feared invasion by Napoleon that it resembled the Martello towers built along the coast (see centre of

The feeling of the time was that ladies should cover up, so parasols keep the sun at bay.

Two young lads play hide-and-seek with the photographer behind a tree in the centre left of the village green. The village stores stand in the centre background across the white-railed green.

This 13th-century, cruciform country church in its placid setting has a preaching cross (possibly 14th-century) in the churchyard, visible here to the left of the lancet windows.

Continuing along southwards we pass the Friends Provident Life Office building on the left. We then cross the main-line railway, the second of our railway stations.

We are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

The telephone pole, near the little girl, probably carried the wires for one of the town's first telephones from the nearby Cottage Hospital to the early telephone exchange above

This photograph shows Kings Road at the point where it meets Cemetery Junction, to the east of the town.

It is located at the lower end of the High Street.

While mechanisation had already come into farming by 1955, there were still plenty of places where more traditional practices continued.

Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.

Edwardian school children pose for the photographer outside their school - every one of them wearing a hat or cap.

There is plenty of activity on the railway and at the pier. In the distance is Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, and the entrance to Loch Long which is backed by the Cowal hills.

Tramway construction is going on at the junction of Lewes Road and Elm Grove. The tracks curv- ing away to the right ter- minated by the race- course.

In the background on Calton Hill stands the unfinished monument to the Scottish dead of the Napoleonic Wars. The monument was started in 1822, but the money ran out and it was never completed.

In King Street, east of the castle, this church has been redundant since 1981.

Frederick Holmes Cooper created them, as well as arboreta and, of course, tea-rooms and a restaurant.

This range of 18th- and 19th-century cottages, some thatched, look across to the parish church, whose churchyard wall can be seen on the left. The village hardware shop is now the Alfresco Restaurant.

Situated on a steep hill on a road that comes from Sandsend, the village has a Saxon church; here are buried the bodies of seven unidentified sailors that were washed up on the tides.