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The backs of the houses in Chaldon Way near the turning with Bradmore Way are viewed here from the footpath along the line of magnificent yews on the eastern slopes of Farthing Down.

He ruined himself by spending public funds on the house - hardly surprising, since the bill came to £190,000. It cost £500 alone to obtain the preliminary designs from Italy.

Looking north-westwards from Lower Yonderover Farm, with hay-bales in Mill House paddock (foreground) and the sign for the Star Inn (centre), the River Brit skirts the edge of the meadow

This is Taw Vale Parade, a new road cut through what were the riverside gardens of the houses to the right.

The large building on the left is the reservoir house, part of which was converted for use as a café.

A thousand years ago in the reign of Edward the Confessor this important town comprised a mint, a priory and a hundred and twenty houses.

The walls and towers surrounding the county gaol, court house and Clifford's Tower were not medieval. They were in fact designed by Sydney Smith, Rector of Foston, and built in the 1820s.

A house on the left is being decorated or renovated by men on ladders, while a man with a euphonium and other players serenade them below.

Note the array of chimney pots on the houses behind the shelters. Southend Westcliff Parade Band

Here, in a rather posed photograph, a well-dressed family stand outside a pleasant house in Beer with lace being worked in the foreground.

As the housing estate at Monkton grew up, the owners of Monkton Park, the District Council, began to develop the area for recreational purposes.

On the extreme left, in Holden Road, is the substantial two-and-a-half storied Holder House, built of red brick around 1800 with a Doric-columned porch.

These houses have a view out to the English Channel. Across the bay is Lowland Point.

All the taller houses on the right were replaced by what is now Debenhams depart- ment store.

Of all High Street's timber-framed houses this one is the grandest. It was built in 1599 for Edward Payne, an ironworker, though by 1923 its resident was Robin Reid.

Opposite the parish church are to be found a row of late Victorian houses known as Britannia Terrace, characterised by their bay windows and long front gardens.

The village of Kettleness succumbed to disaster on 17 December 1829 when the cliff broke away and the houses and alum works fell into the sea.

The house contains beautiful period rooms and the Museum of East Yorkshire.

The British Lion public house next to the Estcourt Dairy is early 18th-century.

There are many fine houses in the generously laid out leafy suburban roads of the New Town.

The original Tudor town plan was based on a series of both parallel and converging streets, but erosion during the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in many houses being lost to the sea.

The third house from the right, slightly lower than its neighbours, is now the post office. Otherwise, the scene is little changed today.

Whatstandwell gets its strange name from Walter Stonewell, a 14th- century resident whose house was next to the former ford which crossed the river here.

This view looks across to the Trowbridge Road - its strong line of Victorian and Edwardian houses is evident going into the distance.