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To the left of Frith's photographer are the grounds of West Hannay House, built as a rectory in 1727 in a good Baroque Hawksmoor-ish style, and behind him the lane leads to St James's parish church, which

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-century rectory, and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality.

Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right). The street nameplate, of which several survive, is a peculiarity of Stroud.

The stalls are more tidy and professional in the goods on display.

Chaplins, owners of the lorry outside the Joy Shop in picture L20007, carried goods not only for the Southern Railway but also for the Great Western, in whose premises they had their depot.

The setting is not as good as it was in the 1890s, for the houses to the right, out of view, were replaced by awful 1960s shops with offices over.

It contains some good townscape, but it is somewhat traffic- blighted, more so now than in this 1950s view, which looks east along the High Street towards Market Square.

However, the sands provide a good place to fish with nets, as we can see in the middle right.

W B Moss was a general dry goods store of quality, and the Consumers Tea Co next door offered a bewildering array of teas and coffees.

Now the roofless romantic ruin stands where once stood the mansion of the 'fair, and wise and good'.

It is of textured concrete and twelve storeys high, much disliked locally, but in fact a rather good design by Fred Pooley, the then County Architect.

To its right is Trinity House, a good stone house in the style of a William Butterfield rectory, built as the manse by J Woodman, who had designed the church.

There is a good range of Tudor and 17th-century timber- framed houses on the right, all with rendered fronts.

The water wheel appears to be in good order, and the fine brick stack displays stone drip courses.

The Red Lion Hotel (left) offers good food and public entertainment. The Bath Hotel (centre) is situated on the site of Bath House, which was smashed into pieces by a very high tide in 1836.

The telephone box is still in the same position, although a new brick-based post box has been installed, and goods for sale have now spilled out onto the pavement.

incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for housing; the city retained a goodly

In this view we see the rather good Art Deco 'Butlins Ingoldmells Hotel', now brutally changed.

Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.

He would be armed with a heavy club; part of his duties was to check on vagrants and strangers, who would not be admitted unless they could give a good account of themselves.

Cavendish Road, which runs from Brighton Road east to Langley Park Road, is a good example of the earlier phases of suburban growth in Sutton.

Chalfont St Giles retains much more of its heritage and character than its southern neighbour, Chalfont St Peter, with a High Street lined with good buildings, a pond and the parish church

Although devoid of good monuments, the interior is of some interest.

This architecture is not exciting, but very user-friendly: a corner shop with others adjacent, each with their good timber fronts, and on the opposite side of the road The Bell pub, making up a standard