The Vicarage Lane remains the same. Cattle were taken to the marshes - this was after passing through an access opposite which is now the front yard of number 33. At the entrance to Vicarage Lane, or Parsons Lane as it was also called, was the Reading Room. A single storey pair of rooms possibly used as the first National School by Mr Court, before Henham School was built in 1859. The National School, which was one of four day schools at the time, was established in 1844. Further down the lane was the Women´s Institute Hut, a WWI billet erected in 1921, with water, a coke stove with brick chimney, and later, electricity.

The last property on that side before reaching the Churchyard is Little Priory, with its large paddock which was once on the site of a bowling green used by British Legion members.

It was originally called Church House, but the only connection with the Church so far known is the possibility of old Priory remains in the orchard, where part of the cloisters extended to the south. The house has been occupied by the District Registrar and by the author, Janet Becker.

Back to 27, Rose Cottage, on the opposite side, where there was once a laundry in the back yard and another of those mid-air shoemaker workshops over an archway beside the house. The front porch was added very recently.

Number 25, Rose Villa, was originally a small cottage built well back from the road in 1790 and the larger front part is an addition of about 1890 which has one of the dummy windows. The iron railings are relatively new and further comment about them is made with the next house.

"Rouser" Baxter, the resident wheelwright and builder living in Rose Villa in the early 20th Century, added house 23 [right] to 21 [left]. It was a newsagent´s shop with a tailor´s business in about 1920-30 and had a tenanted flat above. It was modernised in 1959 for Douglas Howeld, who occupied it until 1990. The newly conditioned front gates are original, made by the local blacksmith to the same design as the private gate from Ford House into the churchyard.

Before WW2, mischievous passing schoolboys would lift the gates off and lay them in the front garden. The elderly occupant, Stephen Aldred, gave up re-hanging them. When the Army engineers came round in 1940 cutting off all iron railings and collecting metal for the war manufacturing industry, as happened next door at 25, the gates remained hidden under grass and nettles. One of the young culprits later enjoyed the benefit of his misdeed, replacing them with great satisfaction. Iron railings were also cut from walls at 9-11 High Street, 15 Church Street, 44 Norfolk Road and the Methodist Chapel.

21 Baxter House named after the occupant above. His workshop was at the bottom of his garden and he had a pony and trap. One occupant thought that this might have been a beer house at one time, because of evidence of barrel storage in the large cellar.

19 is a small cottage built to fill in the space between the other two. This proved to be something of a problem and its kitchen is added partly to the rear wall of the house on one side and a bedroom is over the sitting room of the house on the other side. The front window is an extra large type because the house was a sweet shop at one time.

9 is now Church Cottage. It was a very old cottage of wattle and daub construction, which had to be almost entirely dismantled, propped up and given solid walls. In living memory, it has been a wet fish shop, an antique shop, and again, a fish and chip shop. These businesses were all carried out in a small lean-to on the side.

Number 7 is another elderly dwelling and the deeds date back to George III. It has an odd location with no land at the rear, so it is the practice of successive occupants to rent the allotment adjoining the house. The access from Church Street is too narrow for normal vehicles, so a private right of way has always been enjoyed across one of the main tracks of the allotments in case of the need for an emergency approach by fire engine or ambulance.

Number 5 may have been a slaughterhouse, but was also a builder´s works before becoming a bakery with shop at the front. It was again to be a builder´s yard until recently when it was renovated and converted into two houses.

Finally, this building was built by Frederick Rumbelow, father of the grocer, Phillip, as a stationery and general store in about 1890. Another son, Louis Rumbelow, changed it to a butcher´s shop and after that it was a hairdresser´s salon for both ladies and school boys to get their pudding basin cuts in the holidays. It was briefly a restaurant before becoming a private residence. A notice board on the wall beside the front door used to advertise the coming month´s films at Southwold Cinema.