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Premier Parade, High Street, HORLEY, RH6 7BG

Originally Station Road, when the original 1841 Horley Station was situated on it, before it was moved to its present site on Victoria Road in 1905. This section of High Street, between Victoria Road and Albert Road, is pedestrianised. On the right, below the second lamppost, is the mosaic in Image

Horley's branch of the NatWest Bank in the pedestrianised section of High Street.

Now called The Stapley Building, this former site of the Horley Bookshop has been sympathetically refurbished using modern materials. Nice work.

Situated in High Street (see Image for wider view), the mosaic was commissioned by Horley Town Council to commemorate the Millennium, being unveiled on 2 December 2000. It was designed and made by the Mosaic Workshop in Holloway Road, London, and paid for by local builders' merchants, Mitchells of Horley, who were celebrating their centenary that year. It depicts Gatwick Airport on the left of the mosaic and with Horley itself covering much of the right hand side, bisected by the diagonal line of the London to Brighton railway.

An ugly duckling becomes a swan. One big ugly building is split into two shops with a local charity and Subway in occupation. Honouring the past the building has been named The Stapley Building after the former men's outfitters who occupied the site in the early half of the 1900s. Still has nice mosaic floor in the entrance with Stapley written on it. Lovely shop fronts, better than the aluminium alternative! Modern materials used and better than the chocolate colour it was before.

In the early part of the 1900s this building was a men's outfitters known as Stapley's, a beautiful building really with wooden shop fronts . . . and a focal point in a busy high street. Obviously The Horley Bookshop didn't care and it became a pretty ugly building in a poor state of repair. People just walking past. Sad.

The site here was a garden at the back of the Horley Bookshop which fell into terrible repair and was effectively redundant. The buildings were refurbished and the garden was reused for a single storey Domino's Pizza fronting on to the car park at Consort Way East. Smart really, hopefully others will follow and a new public space will develop.

The High Street is to the left and Victoria Road to the right in this image. The High Street was once called Station Road, but the name had to be changed when the railway moved the station some 300 metres southwards in 1905. From this location one now needs to follow Victoria Road to get to the station. The attractive corner building with its Dutch gables is Number 2 High Street. As a sign of the times it currently houses a branch of the Cheque Centre, although the photographer thinks that it was formerly occupied by a branch of the estate agents Gascoigne Pees.

Idiosynchratic display of architectural styles, with empty retail units.