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The church was later replaced by the skyscraping Cater House.

The brick building on the other side of the road was the school, which had been in the adjacent white house until 1851. Benjamin Horth, the then headmaster, was also the village postman.

The houses on the left are typical of the Wealden style, and H Kemp's Stores and Post Office still exist.

The timber-framed Guild House stands next to Knowle's magnificent church, and was completed in 1412.

and Elijah Hargreaves from Rossendale were considered great pioneers in St Anne's; they later took an interest in Fairhaven, building the Promenade assisted by Thomas Riley of Fleetwood, who built many houses

Most of the houses are built with grey stone, and some are fairly large, as we see here. The pond, which was once the village well, is fed by spring water.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

South of the bypass are late 19th- and 20th-century housing and a large industrial area leading down to Eling creek. Nearby is the brick church of St Winifred, built in 1937.

Old cottages have stone-framed windows and doorways, and new houses blend in colour with their crushed Ham stone concrete.

The club house, with its central lookout station, was built in 1935. To the left of it, within the fence, is the warning siren. The crowds are probably watching the annual regatta.

building on the extreme left is Manor Farm, which F C Beazley described in his book on Thurstaston as 'a little gem'; unfortunately, it has been demolished, and a rather incongruous-looking building that houses

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.

Built between 1767 and 1774, it is a breathtakingly monumental semi-ellipse of thirty houses, with one hundred and fourteen giant columns to the two upper floors in its prodigious length of five hundred

busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war housing

On the right is St Catherine's, reputedly the oldest house in the village, then Last's butcher's shop, once noted for its fine sausages, but now demolished.

One of the few houses was Hawkes Point Cottage, seen here (right) on the nearest headland. The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.

Sometimes described as the county's finest unspoilt Elizabethan country house, Barlborough Hall has stood to the north of Barlborough, a north-east Derbyshire village, for four centuries.

The old station now houses a tearoom.

Parade House (right) was demolished in 1980 and sensitively rebuilt, with a slate hung front, as the NatWest bank.

By 1897 Jane Austen's house, on the left, had been divided into four - three dwellings and the premises of Chawton Working Men's Club. This had a Reading Room, and was 'well suppied with newspapers'.

Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it.

Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

A view of one of the city's best narrow medieval streets, lined with tall, overhanging shops and houses.

In the centre is the cable stationmaster's house, with its own vinery just behind the flagpole. The Exiles Club has now been built just in front of the original cable station.