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The tree-bark ornamentation of the lintels and window-boxes is an unusual feature.

The church is notable for its sense of spaciousness: the old box-pews were done away with in 1877 and replaced with chairs. A huge iron chandelier now hangs from the central arch.

It opened in 1962 and had a capacity for 220 bathers an hour.

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases

The paintings that formed the basis of Britain's national collection were purchased for £57,000 in 1824 from J Angerstein.The exhibition halls created on the north side of Trafalgar Square to display

The paintings that formed the basis of Britain’s national collection were purchased for £57,000 in 1824 from J Angerstein.The exhibition halls created on the north side of Trafalgar Square to display

In 1961, a box of three Irish linen hand-rolled handkerchiefs cost 8s 11d from Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Bargate.

It looks as if the Austin A30 has hit the post box!

St Mary's, rebuilt in 1714, is a larger Georgian exception, seating 170 in box pews and gallery. The chandelier came from Andover's St Mary's when that church was rebuilt from 1842.

Richard Hull of Leith Hill Place built the tower in 1766 for his own delight, but also for that of his neighbours and everybody else.

Traders enjoyed brisk business here - they include the busy Choc Box, an amusement arcade, the Cabin Tea Rooms and a beachwear outlet.

Further on is another former shop with a chewing-gum machine; beyond it are the telephone box and the Parish Room of 1904.

This is an almost ideal two- storey chocolate box cottage, with its thatched roof and door hood, small pane timber casement windows, and a profusion of flowers and creepers adorning the boundary

His grandson, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, designed the K6 - Britain's famous red telephone box.

A small brass recalls that in 1899 five sons of the village carved the splendid pulpit 'for the love of the church'.

The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer.

By the time of the 1925 photograph, an early telephone box has appeared on the traffic island.

The village got its red telephone box (centre) listed in 1987. The former post office, called Hunter's, is to its right.

Ardingly, pronounced Arding-lie, is situated to the north of Haywards Heath and is famous in Sussex as the setting for Ardingly College.

The White Hart (left) contained what was probably the oldest letter box. It was discovered in 1988, and had been in use from 1842.

There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

When I was a teenager I remember riding out on my BSA Bantam to the Wimpy Bar on Box Hill.

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

Note the window boxes in the top view and the bowed façade which overlooked Burnley.