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In the centre is the New Inn public house and tea gardens, formerly owned by Cobbs' Brewery.

When, at the beginning of the 20th century, the pub lost its licence, it then (believe it or not) became a temperance house!

He came in 1958, and before long had acquired a reputation amongst the staff as an escapee, always managing to get away from the island where he was housed.

The house on the left has been given rough repairs for generations - its toppling dormer lacks several panes of glass. Wells has suffered more than most Norfolk towns from the impact of incomers.

The house on the right is clad in weatherboarding, a typical Wealden building material.

By 1975 the future prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her family had moved to a house here known as The Mount.

A beamed and peg tiled old court house still stands in the main street not far from the White Hart pub, right.

The de Hoghtons have been here since the Conquest, and the house has had several noteworthy visitors in its time.

The cottages were demolished the same year and replaced by council houses.

There are some fine cottages here, and no new housing.

Since the 1930s thousands of houses have been built in Portchester. The A27 is at one end of Castle Street. From the White Hart pub to the castle there are a variety of Georgian red brick properties.

Beyond Smith's chemist's shop, on the left, and the entrance to the Shambles, is another Smith's: Alma House clothing store.

The gardens behind Bank House, situated in the lower High Street, were given to the town of Stroud in 1930 by Mr Ernest Winterbotham, and were intended as a quiet corner where shop workers could enjoy

The 16th-century Chantry in Hadham Road was built on the site of the original priest's house on lands granted under the will of Baldwyn Victor.

Modern storage and con- tainer units have taken their place as the emphasis switches from industry to ware- housing and unloaded cargo.

Dales' Lindum House and the single storey range have been rebuilt, but the buildings beyond survive: there has been much more change on the right side of the street.

Though equipped with loops for handguns (they are the openings that look like inverted keyholes), Kirby was intended to be more a country house than a fortress.

Parts of the house date from the medieval period, but it has been greatly altered over the years, and was restored in the 1920s.

Elsewhere people paid to follow fashion and cover their houses with bricks; here that was a luxury few could afford.

In 1931 it was purchased by the council, who used the building as offices.

Hotels and guest-houses were built, and the number of holiday-makers seeking pleasure in Meols and Hoylake increased significantly.

Beyond it is a late 17th-century thatched house with a tall brick chimney stack. The pantile-roofed building is a workshop or old smithy where a cart is being repaired.

It was redeveloped in the 1760s, and a new master's house was added in 1832. In the 1860s the architects Austin & Johnson were commissioned to completely rebuild the church and main building.

The buildings to the immediate left house the remains of a range of timber-framed cottages; their end frame has been exposed to view within the former building contractor's offices.