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As the new housing estates at Westy grew up from the 1920s, this became a vital route for those working in Howley's industries.

The building is now a private house: the porch has been demolished and the canteen (right), with its gable removed, has been converted into a garage.

The thatched house with a brick front is The Rooks of c1620. The horse and trap are coming up Old Paper Mill Lane, which seems too narrow to have enabled the van and the trap to pass.

The 18th-century white plastered house is the former Town Hall, reminding us of the town's former borough status.

All Saints' church on the left is a wonderful example of how churches can continue to be houses of worship, while changing their role slightly to suit modern demands.

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

The George & Dragon public house in the foreground (left) was demolished in 1964 to allow very long concrete pillars to be transported around the corner.

Olton Boulevard East was created from former country lanes in 1928, to serve a vast municipal housing estate reckoned to be a model of its kind.

This is one of them, a beautiful Elizabethan property rebuilt on the site of an earlier moated house by prosperous merchant Richard Smallbroke in 1575.

Along the street in the picture was a special bath house, as well as a number of new hotels and lodgings.

Shown here is the sequence of houses that were built by wealthy Georgian merchants; several of the properties are now professional premises.

The Water House was designed by John Smith (1830). The top storey was a cistern, supplying water to the city, all of which was below it at this time.

The Rising Sun public house is ideally situated to refresh visitors who moor their boats alongside the well-kept common.

New houses have sprung up in the village, and older properties have been restored; yet it remains a very pleasant community. The parish of Boddington is recorded in the Domesday Book as Botendon.

The lock keeper's cottage (left of photograph) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The house, barely visible behind the thick hedgerows, is of recent construction in stucco with tiled roof. The owner seems to like his Nissen huts.

made to Cromwell House in its restoration of 1929.

Like the Customs House, it was gutted by fire in the civil war, but was later restored.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time. This popular princess died at the age of 21.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

A rather similar view of the cathedral and the Jacobean house to its left appears on the current £20 bank note.

the upper windows of the building on the right is a fire insurance plaque, which signified that the owner had paid for the services of the fire brigade in the unfortunate event of the house