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This was true, the council wanted the land for '… road improvements, public offices, a fire station, baths and washhouses and sanitary conveniences.'

residents' concerns, it must vote down aggressive development proposals which create large numbers of new houses encroaching on open land and generating substantial additional traffic on local roads

The best-known is the Zanzibar in Newport Road, opposite the Chetwynd Centre. It is on the site of the Top of the World, which was established immediately after the Second World War.

The best-known is the Zanzibar in Newport Road, opposite the Chetwynd Centre. It is on the site of the Top of the World, which was established immediately after the Second World War.

incorporates both a cavalier and a roundhead standing on green turf, reminding us of Sir Edward Ford's activities nearby, whilst above them is the imperial Roman eagle (a reminder of Roman roads

As he declared in 1904: 'I venture to suggest that while the age in which we live is the age of the great closely-compacted, overcrowded city, there are already signs, for those who can read

Of course, the Scots were not happy to lose control of such a strategic part of their southern borderlands but the formidable (Matthew Constantine) Until the slum clearance and road building

A similar development ran northwards along Woodlands Road.

Just past the Stepping Stones public house is one of the roads leading to Polesden Lacy.

developing high quality, long lasting Visionary Buildings and Open Spaces During the severe flooding in September 1958, bits of wood and debris from building sites were washed down this road

The Red Lion, which was demolished in 1964, was a hotel, as is the White Horse, which sits in the centre of the town, and the Lincoln Arms, which stands in Lincoln Road at the entrance to the main

Ormond House, on the corner of the new road, now had its garden view dominated by a huge engine shed, and the price of the house fell accordingly.

Today the by-pass, long fought for, has brought the town a measure of peace and quiet, especially from those rumbling monsters of the road, trucks and lorries.

Soon afterwards, Richard moved across the road to the building which had previously been the Spread Eagle until it closed down. This was not the only pub to disappear from the High Street.

The house was designed by the eminent architect, Walter Brierley of York (who also designed Dyke Nook, the home of the Blake family on Whalley Road).

There was also the Stone Roof Café (on the left-hand side of the road just before it bends, 54661, on previous page).

There was also the Stone Roof Café (on the left-hand side of the road just before it bends, 54661, on previous page).

razed to the ground over the following three or four years, including the tall Phoenix Mill at Rashcliffe which had been empty for some time, Engine Bridge Mill at Folly Hall, the mills of Colne Road

Cubitt's statue now stands at the entrance to Reigate Road by the Mole Valley District Council Offices.

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.

The classic Broads marshland scene with an open-trestle windpump. The low-lying marshes of the Broads were drained by windpumps until the 1940s, when electric pumps took over.

This placid scene depicts the Broads as every water traveller would wish to experience them.

This turn of the century view shows the broad and spacious high street. In the centre is the former town hall, later a masonic hall, which dates from 1775.

Much of this prosperous market town north of the Broads was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600. Its pleasing Georgian facades spread around the market place.