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The Beach Hotel had opened at 4 Marine Parade in 1915, expanding into the whole parade by 1936, when the original red-brick houses that had, in part, comprised The Prince Albert Convalescent Home were

Village public houses are still the heart of many communities around the New Forest - not only as places to go for refreshments, but as places to meet and socialise, and as venues for sports clubs.

The New Forest has some of the best public houses in southern England, whether the visitor is seeking accommodation or just calling in for a tasty lunch and a drink after a hard morning's walk.

Ironically, having had no customs and excise provision during the 18th century, the north side of the dock was to become the site of Portcullis House, the local headquarters of Her Majesty's Customs

The long, gently sloping High Street is viewed here from its far end, with the partly weather-boarded Rose and Crown coaching inn on the right, and the old Clock House visible in the distance.

The Victorian railway houses of New Bradwell are in the background.

Once the village smithy, the inn at Godmanstone is said to be the smallest public house in England. The beautifully-thatched building measures only 20 ft by 10 ft; it is about 500 years old.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

Nowadays it is The Swan House Inn.

The houses have survived, but unfortunately the trees have not. The absence of any traffic would be a welcome sight today.

Nowadays it is The Swan House Inn.

The open green and the large pond beyond the trees are surrounded by houses and cottages. The steps up to the village pump were built so that water churns could be filled from a cart.

Situated on the corner of Sandy Lane, these courts, flanked by suburban houses, now form part of Cheam Fields Club.

To the right stands the 19th-century Old School House, no longer thatched.

Today, the house at the bottom left corner is no more, and the grass is kept in bowling-green condition by the resident lock keeper.

This bustling view shows the bandstand on the left and the 'Scottish baronial style' Old Custom House of 1637 in the middle distance.

It retains its rural seclusion in spite of recent threats: plans for a major housing development, just north of here at Tillingham Hall, were challenged and overturned in 1987.

Some of its early character remains, but there has also been considerable later development, typical of which are the houses glimpsed here.

The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls. On the left is the post office, and babies in coach-built prams.

The large house was called Yaverlands; sad to say, it no longer exists, having been pulled down in the 1970s.

Three-storeyed 18th-century town houses, including the King's Arms Hotel in the middle distance, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

The Methodist chapel in the centre of the photograph is now converted into houses.

Houses now occupy the field where the cows are grazing.

Not far from Evesham, South Littleton is a lovely old village of pretty cottages, a manor house built in 1721, though attached to an even more ancient building, and a church that originally dated back