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More recently, St Margaret's was the home of two literary giants, Noel Coward and later Ian Fleming, who rented a house from Coward. It was here that Fleming wrote some of his James Bond novels.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Only a mile from a pleasant and unspoilt beach, the area attracted holiday- makers, and the occupiers of Townsend House helped satisfy their needs by offering meals and accommodation.

The houses on the right existed until the 1960s, but were in use as commercial establishments by that time.

Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library

By the end of the 18th century, the western half of the High Street contained about fifteen houses, which by 1842 had increased to about twenty-five. Several of these still survive.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

The name gives the game away - not so long ago it was farmland, and now it is a housing estate.

The toll house on the far span of Halfpenny Bridge explains the unusual name, because that is how much it cost to pass over this handsome construction when it was built in the 18th century.

Behind the sea-front boarding houses and overlooking Talbot Square is Sacred Heart Church, which was designed by Pugin in 1857.

In 1799 Samuel Compton developed his spinning mule here and now, a museum in the house charts the development of textile manufacture.

On the hillside, ¾ mile east of Towneley is this splendid house. Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

A later view, shows the Winter Gardens now completing the arc of guest houses and other buildings that overlook the wide promenade.

These cottages on the green, against the backdrop of the church, are probably the most photographed houses in Suffolk.

On the left is a terrace of brick houses and shops built c1865. Barclay's Bank closed in 2000, but the Co-op still trades from the ground floor, although it now has a mid-1990s shop front.

The occupants jumped to safety, but the Landrover buried itself in the roof of a house below; from there it had to be removed piecemeal, as the site was too inaccessible to use a crane.

Further up is the Mechanics' Institution, or Institute of Literature and Science, now housing the Wakefield Museum.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Its name is said to derive from a Saxon, Gromen (which translates simply as 'the man' or 'groom'), who built a moated castle where the 17th-century private house Groombridge Place now stands.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

Now renamed The Abbey Hotel, this terrace of houses became an hotel in 1879. It is part of the elder Wood's Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade.

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

The shops on the right had all been private houses only a few years earlier.

The house on the left was the bakery of William Kenny; hidden behind the next building is the Reading Room of 1858. To the right is Harry Nunn's hardware shop, which closed in c1980.