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The scene is recognisable today, though the National Benzole petrol station on the left has gone, and so has the long stone wall on the right.

Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s).

The fine late 19th-century shopfronts to the right have mostly gone by Smith Brothers is still a stationers, JPS.

The popular Century Cinema was built in 1937 on the corner of Kingsway Road and Station Way.

The simple but somehow graceful shop fronts have gone, although the buildings remain, including the Old Fire Station of 1873, with its prominent tower.

Between the underground station and the parish church, this is a wonderful neo-Tudor pub of 1936 by A E Sewell; he also designed the Crown and Anchor in High Street, Chipping Barnet, and the Goat near

Here a Royal Air Force coastal radar station slipped down the cliffs on 14 May 1942. Its concrete and brick remains are entombed in the undercliff.

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

The hotel served both the community (which had grown greatly in the 19th century after the colliery was opened) and railway travellers, for it stands near where the pre-Beeching station was.

On the top of the hill is the outer navigation station for Heathrow Airport, used by the Trans-Atlantic flights.

The petrol station on the right has been replaced by a 1970s pair of houses.

In September 1645 the Scots considered stationing troops here, and the castle was in fact besieged by the Royalists between August and September 1648.

Certainly the men of Walmer, who have manned the lifeboat stationed here since 1856, have good cause to regard the sea and weather with caution.

Eastcote is a mediaeval settlement; it is only as one emerges from the shopping parades of the 1930s grouped around the underground station into a series of timber-framed vernacular buildings of the 16th

Back in more mundane Kingsbury Road, Station Parade, with its paper-thin symmetry and air of parsimony sets the mercenariness of suburban development before us.

However, a new station was now planned with a sizeable refreshment room; behind that was growing a town decidedly Edwardian in style.

The southern terminus station of the Bluebell Railway to East Grinstead is nearby.

The corner stationer's is still just that. The market day is Friday. The whole square is the property of the Duchy of Lancaster, states a notice in the shelter in the middle of the square.

By 1925, the Promenade behind the boat station was fully developed; here it is being used by a variety of vehicles - a charabanc, a horse and trap, a motor car and an invalid carriage

One of Berkshire's finest villages is Sutton Courtenay, with the cooling towers of Didcot Power Station a constant companion to the south.

Sheffield Park Gardens were magnificently landscaped by Capability Brown and are open to visitors.They also contain the National Pinetum collection of pine trees.The southern terminus station

, is a fine half-timbered house.The Norman church of St Giles is at the north end of the village.Along a footpath nearby is a well-restored watermill with a wooden overshot waterwheel.The railway station is

Hall from the north, showing the main entrance and driveway, the view that house party guests would first see upon arriving by carriage, having been brought up from the Pease's nearby private station

This view of Station Road is taken from the railway footbridge looking north-east. Sussex Towns From Chichester to Uckfield