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The holiday trade led to the development of the town, chiefly in the direction of the West Cliff, where hotels and guest houses were built.

The windmill is now converted to a private house.

His work is commemorated in a memorial near the seashore, on the site of a house where he lived.

One feature is the tomb of Lord Knyvett, the official who discovered Guy Fawkes at work in the cellar under the Houses of Parliament.

David had no favourite order; he actively encouraged the Augustinians, Benedictines and Cistercians to open houses.

In the distance, on the left, is Elmsleigh, a fine house of the 1860s, now demolished.

The pleasant later 19th-century houses look across at the cleared site upon which the Fire Station and the garage (once Regent, now Texaco) were built around the late 1950s.

Temple Newsam was bought by Leeds Corporation in 1922 from Edward Wood, the future Lord Halifax.The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for

However, the Labour group on the council objected, as they did also to the proposed sale of council houses.

The trees on the right screen the tea garden grounds on Nag's Head Island, and at the left is one of the Oxford bank houses.

Now a house, it retainst the Victorian wall letterbox near the door, cleared four times a day in around 1900.

This view along a minor lane was taken by Frith's photographer as one of the company's normal village store or post office views; in the middle distance is the gable of a thatched cruck house, the self-explanatory

The four houses on the right, built in 1817, are now private residences.

The public house on the right, the Corn Exchange, advertises stabling.

He spotted a young ash tree growing by a fence and named the house after it.

In the distance is a corn-grinding post mill (centre left), possibly owned at this time by a Mr Mallett, whose worry was that the building of houses nearby would keep the wind from the mill's sails

The buildings by the road have been sold off recently and the land, like so much in Mobberley, is being developed for housing.

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

Beyond the greenhouse is Briarwood, one of a number of rather good sub-Arts and Crafts houses dotted around Sandilands.

Today, the property is called The Old Stone House, and all that remains of its Royal Mail connections are a pillar box set in a wall and a telephone box.

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover.

Though just a Birmingham suburb now, Castle Bromwich retains its green and a few old houses.

The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.

Grand Parade (right), housing the post office and Arthur Hopkins' butcher's shop, was newly built at the time this picture was taken.