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The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

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

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

The Central Stores, now owned by V A and A E Geach, is in business today and provides important service to the local community, while the house ahead with the gabled attic rooms is now

Modern houses proliferate in Tanworth now, but the old chestnut tree (glimpsed top left) still casts a shade over the green, and the Bell Inn (top and bottom left), across the road from the

Looking West We are looking across the lake to the houses in Durham Street, with the Presbyterian church roof in the centre of the picture, and the Holy Rood Roman Catholic church on

Converted to a house, the upper floor now has many more windows, including a dormer window above the weatherboarded section in the middle.

The Lifeboat House is now a museum dedicated to the history and development of the R.N.L.I.

Three hundred feet above the sea, this white-painted Victorian lighthouse housed a two-ton turntable operating the revolving light.

On the right is an Ind Coope pub, The Old House at Home, a landmark for bargees on the River Medway. The pub had been rebuilt in 1914 and had been in the family of Captain Ruthvens for 102 years.

The former Huntsman and Hounds public house is now mostly hidden by trees.

The house to the right with a corrugated iron roof, now demolished, shows a common solution to failing thatch.

Redevelopment of Daventry began in the early sixties under a scheme to house Birmingham overspill population.

Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.

In 1926, the Sands railway station closed and was converted to amusement arcades housing hundreds of slot machines; there was also a helter-skelter and a skating rink.

Today, the house has changed little, although the black barn has been demolished. Also, with the conversion of the railway from steam to electricity, the overhead wiring is strung along the skyline.

Today modern houses are interspersed with the cottages. Nearby, close to the church, older cottages with thatched roofs and latticed windows can be found.

It was in a half-timbered house near the top of the street in August 1485 that Henry Tudor spent the night before riding on to Bosworth to do battle and win the Crown.

One of the two houses on the left belonged to Seabrook's Farm, and the other was the vicarage.

When the row of houses next door to it was built in the 1860s, it must have almost doubled the population of the village.

Further along is the Town Hall, which was built in 1854; it also housed the police court and post office.

The roadway, and the grass with its two forlorn seats and their single weakly tree, contrast with the well kept appearance of the surrounding houses.

The south bank was a popular location for hiring rowing boats, and the Bedford Rowing Club, founded in 1886, have their boat and club house to the left of the photographer.

Note the capstan houses for hauling boats out of the water.