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Almost all the houses are detached, and often individually designed. The Local Area Committee of the Borough Council is doing its best to maintain the special ambiance of the district.

In 1955 a Phipps and Company tied house, the brewery merged shortly afterwards with the Northampton Brewery Company to become Phipps Northampton Brewery Company.

The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

In the background is the chimney for the boiler house which was used to heat the pool water and the slipper baths.

As we look north down St Barnabas Road, we see that the trees and houses look very new.

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

This new house, built to the north of the old priory, was built in 1735.

This was called Birdcage Walk, and once included an aviary housing tropical birds.

The 1793 fountain remains, while the Georgian bay windows to the range beyond conceal Bishop Bekynton's mid 15th-century Nova Opera, a range of houses over workshops and shops built along the

The baker's delivery trap beyond stands outside Langler House.

A commemorative tablet is on the wall of Bronte Cottage, the first house on the right next to the old road bridge.

A car at the toll gate waits as the gate is opened; the gatekeeper's house is adjacent to the gates.

On the left is the cupola of the old Customs House. The near-empty Harbour is the result of many fishing smacks lost during the First World War; the remainder transferred elsewhere.

The columns and gate house to the right of the war memorial formed the main entrance to Hooton Hall, the grounds of which are now a golf course.

In the far distance one can see the rooftops of modern housing estates built to accommodate incomers working for the new industry in the town.

The interior is of some interest; the Ravenscroft Chapel in the south aisle houses a fine alabaster figure of Thomas Ravenscroft, a local benefactor, dated 1630.

A natural progression maybe from the 19th-century enclosed public baths and wash-houses, Lidos sprang up in the 1930s all around London.

had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town houses

The projecting sign (right of centre) is for the Port Bredy Guest House. Opposite, under the Esso sign (left), Bridport Motor Company Ltd held dealerships for Morris, Daimler, Wolseley and Lanchester.

building remains, now an Oxfam shop, while all beyond the towering Baptist Church on the left has since been demolished and is now the entrance to the car parks formed between the backs of the High Street houses

The new parish was carved out of St James' parish as more and more houses and industry were attracted to the Burnley Road area.

Brent Knoll village straggles along the western side of the Knoll, with St Michael's Church, a dedication often associated with hill-tops and hills, to the centre and the Manor House of the 1860s to

On his death in 1762, his brother, Thomas, inherited his wealth and used some of it to enlarge the family house and landscape the grounds.

The windows on the left, open wide in the glorious hot summer, are at Myrtle Cottage and Penrith House.