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At the centre of the hop- picking area, it was once a great hop centre with many oast houses.

Near the River Ouse, situated in what is now the Museum Gardens, this building was the guest house for St Mary's Abbey.

Having travelled by train from London to Gosport, it was from here that Queen Victoria used to set sail for Osborne House, her beloved summer home on the Isle of Wight.

Part of the 'Cliftonville' area, these smart terraces housed the wealthy colonels, surgeons and Indian Army officers who retired to the seaside here. They enjoyed outstanding views across Weston Bay.

Behind the trees is the Friends' Meeting House (built 1824). The tall chimney belongs to Wells & Perry's Chelmsford Brewery.

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387. The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys who found 'good, honest people' here.

On Queen Street are the scant remains of the medieval manor house that once belonged to Tynemouth Priory: a fragment of wall and a 15th-century window.

Nearby, Pashley is a 17th-century manor house with beautiful gardens.

At this date, entry to the main body of the church was free, but the sub-sacrist kept the keys to the Chapter House (considered one of the finest Norman chambers in the country), the Elder Lady Chapel

Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury.

This parade was built in the years prior to the Second World War, as Pitsea's houses began to inch along Rectory Road.

Limestone from the excvavated tunnel was used for building houses in nearby Corsham.

The Esplanade Hotel on the left is seen here as it was when it was built in 1887; it was designed to be easily converted into five houses if it failed as a hotel.

The steep, winding stairs and the difference in levels of the houses show how the buildings cling to the steep cliff, the summit of which rises high above.

On the south side of Coltishall the river Bure flows gently through water meadows where cattle and horses graze.

Many of the houses here are built of the familiar ironstone of the oolitic limestone belt, which stretches all the way from South Yorkshire to Dorset.

The thatched cottages are no more; the nearest has been replaced by a no doubt very functional large brick house.

A pub of the old school where the landlord caters for everyone from 18 to 80, the Halfway House (right) has been in continuous operation since 1893.

This view is within the Norman chapter house looking towards the entrance from the cloister.

But Wilmcote was a quarrying centre, and this timber-framed house has a garden wall of the local lias limestone.

The undulating roofline of the houses in the High Street makes a very attractive scene.

In the late 1940s, the Reynolds family were thinking of buying the Miller's House (pictured here), and it was suggested that Montgomery convert the mill across the road into a home.

The Station Master's house can be seen to the left, with the main entrance to the station beyond that. The closed gates would indicate the arrival of a steam train.