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The pier was opened in 1884, and the glass pavilion, which was used for concerts, dancing, boxing and wrestling, was added seven years later.

The post box is a unique Victorian model dated 1856. The stocks are thought to have come from Clewer in the late 1920s. The figures on the wall are no longer there.

The buildings on the left have now all gone, along with the enamelled sign for 'Spillers Shapes for all dogs', but the post office is still there, now with a new telephone box.

One of the notices on display outside the corner grocery store in Crown Square reads: 'Don't go home without our pixie pasties - 1s 8d a box'.

Oats Lane on the left, named after the Oats family who for many generations were the local millers, is still a narrow by-road, but the Green in the distance has been developed with a One Stop shop, a bus

The signals and level crossing gates were operated from the signal box.

The post office stores have moved around the corner and the letter box has gone.

post office stores continues to supply the needs of the village, and even the letterbox, advising that 'letters containing coin, paper money, or jewellery should not be posted in the box

On the right, outside the post office selling Park Drive cigarettes, there is an old-style red telephone box, and beyond it two village shops.

A Victorian post box sits in the wall on the right, out of view. The cottages, little changed, carry the names of former occupants: Crockford, Chidgey, Pope, Syms and Miss Bryant.

This scene is little changed: the Volunteer Inn, minus whitewash, survives along with the phone box; behind it is the Old Post Office.

On the right is the Cliffe post office, with a pillar box outside. The Black Bull pub (centre) was another property of the Maidstone brewers Style & Winch.

Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.

The best of the timeless views is still unchanged here, though with the Reading Room (left) now having become the Box of Delights and providing visitors with ice cream.

This is a classic English village setting, with rows of cottages overlooking a green and an old red telephone box.

The telephone box in front of the newsagents has moved across the road to behind the camera.

It was notorious in the 19th century for the activities which Redditch men got up to in the field behind the pub.

Down the High Street on the left, Robt W Edgar`s Bristol Outfitting Stores was part of the block sacrificed for the road widening.

Lymm post office, with the public telephone box outside, is on the left; on the right is the site of the present Saddler's Arms on the corner of Legh Street.

The last bare-fisted boxing match was held in Wadhurst in 1863. The street is now very busy with traffic and people.

The centre of the Pier, now covered, was a popular venue for concert parties, boxing, wrestling, roller skating and tea dances.

The post office (right) is unchanged, but the telephone box has been replaced.

The Guildhall was built in 1574 as a market hall; it was rebuilt in 1814, except for the splendid timber arches on which it rests, and which serve as shelter for the stall-holders and their customers.

A crowd, mainly male, has gathered for the Changing of the Guard in five minutes' time at 11.00am.