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During the 20th century, the farm became the Old Plough House Refreshment Rooms. It is still a well-known restaurant in this low- lying fenland area.

Dunmow ceased to be a borough in 1885, and the building has since housed various commercial enterprises.

Gracie Fields once lived in Connaught Avenue in a house called 'Tinkerbell'.This view is little changed today, although the Avenue is no longer almost devoid of traffic.

The building on the right was erected in 1922 to house the Redditch Benefit Building Society (founded in 1859).

Though still fairly well-endowed with trees in the 1950s, the slopes were vanishing under the housing developments of Tarpots and New Thundersley.

The Chantry Café probably occupies the site of the priest's house.

Development spread beyond the immediate area of the town to Bradda West and Bradda East; many of the houses in this picture have been built since picture No 47241 was taken in 1901 (page 113).

the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented porch, Maple House

It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere. The newly-erected telegraph lines suggest the relative affluence of this street.

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

In 1873 James Kent leased nearly 100 acres of land and started building houses for commuters.

This grand manor house, now a hotel, was built during the Elizabethan period, but was considerably extended by its Victorian occupants.

It became the Grammar School in 1921, but was demolished in 1998 and the site developed for housing.

The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.

The house on the right is now described as Maltravers, '18th-century restaurant'. Beth Chatto's well-known garden can be found on the edge of the village.

This is now the Rashleigh Arms, named after the family who still own the village and live at nearby Menabilly House, immortalised as Manderley by Daphne du Maurier in her book 'Rebecca'.

The leafy Victorian estate village of Canford Magna was created by the Guest family of Canford House for their staff.

The two impressive buildings to the right now house the Natwest Bank, previously the National Provincial and originally the Northamptonshire Union Bank.

This old school was built in the 1850s, but in recent years it has been converted into a number of separate private houses.

Par Green has since been made a one-way street, and the pub is a private house.

A small number of houses still manages to support a pub and grocery store - this one is part of the Mace chain.

The sign reads 'The smallest public house in England, originally a blacksmith's shop. King Charles I stopped here to have his horse shod.

Eventually, any trace of its previous prosperity became submerged beneath the houses and the harbour mud.

At this time the street narrowed, because of a row of houses surviving in the middle of the roadway.