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Set back from the A66, the King's Arms with its stables and courtyard to the rear was once a coaching- house serving travellers on the Penrith to Darlington turnpike, a route linking the

Both the Rose and Crown (left) and the George (right) public houses thrive, but the corner shop (left, beyond the Rose and Crown), in this photograph Norman the grocer's, has led a chequered life, being

More tall town houses look out to sea over the sea wall. These are known locally as Albion Terrace.

On the left is a Wealden-type house of c1400; it was restored in 1974-76.

The Victorian town hall and its dominating clock tower overlook some fine Tudor and Jacobean town houses.

The shop on the left is now a house, and the Co-op to its right no longer trades either.

The Rose and Crown public house provided the village with its first bus service.

The 14th-century Mint House, on the left, was once the home of Andrew Borde - 'merry Andrew' - a former Carthusian Friar, and court physician to Henry VIII.

Next to the thatched cottage in the centre, the houses show a good example of limestone banding in ironstone.

Behind is Southampton's Civic Centre housing the civic offices, the police station, Southampton lending library and an art gallery. Its tower is 158 ft high.

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales. All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

Shops and eating houses would be bustling. Excellent cakes were on sale from a nearby bakery and painted ladies in their bustles and boats would drape the verandah (where the garage is now).

This street scene shows some fine red brick, tile-hung, ivy-clad houses with beautiful old chimneys, lining the left-hand side of the road.

The half-timbered house stands on the site of a hospital founded by Henry III in 1234.

That done, the Council knew what it wanted: it approached Lord Donegall to see if he would let them take over the house and park at Ormeau.

Many businesses were transformed into private houses and attractive housing developments have taken place around the High Street.

The Adelphi Mill in Grimshawe Lane now houses a hotel whilst the remainder of the building has been divided up for use by a large number of businesses.

The Saxon crosses of the Giant's Grave are in the churchyard (see the chapter on monuments and houses).

Note the beautiful weatherboarded house surrounded by the picket fence on the right. Locals sometimes call the village Lye or West?Leigh.

The toll-house across the river still stands, though the section of towpath which is visible, was removed long ago and replaced recently by a path beneath the nearest arch.

The tower was capped by a timber spire until 1802, when it was removed at the behest of Lady Kensington who feared that it would fall on her nearby house.

Immediately to the right of the inlet is the Bedford Rowing Club's clubhouse; further right, by the bridge, the Moat House 1960s tower block is mercifully out of shot.

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