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The grocers' shop has now been incorporated into the George public house. West Street, whose sign (right) has now gone, is the route to Horncastle and Lincoln.

Before the end of the century Finchale had become a dependent house of about nine or ten monks.

Priory, remodelled by Sir John Soane in the late 18th century, where Queen Adelaide died in 1849; here, too, is Stanmore Hall, a remarkable ragstone building which until a great conflagration in 1979 housed

It closed in 1974, and is now known as Marsh House. Opposite is the Lamb, which first made its appearance on this site between 1672 and 1781. The present Lamb opened in 1833.

In March 1902 she sold the hall and its 62 acres to Burnley for the very low price of £17,500, and paid for the art gallery it housed.

Because of his new invention and the new mechanisation it brought about, many people were forced out of their rural homes to work in the factories, and he was forced out of this house and the area.Apart

Brought from London, it marked the north- eastern corner of contractor Thomas Docwra's Grove House estate.

However, water power can be unreliable, so the shed on the left with the chimney housed a steam engine to power the machinery if the water was too low.

Ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bath, and sometimes described as the first true Renaissance house in England, Longleat was built by Sir John Thynne between 1547 and 1580.

Farther downstream from here on the other side of the bridge were the premises of the Wye Fisheries, Stuart House.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

In this view are three of the best buildings in the town: the medieval parish church; the more modern columned art gallery of 1913, which was built to house the work of a noted local artist, Alfred East

The grocers' shop has now been incorporated into the George public house. West Street, whose sign (right) has now gone, is the route to Horncastle and Lincoln.

This had been the Norfolk Coffee House; it was rebuilt in white brick in 1838.

St Peter's Cottage, once a priest's house and now a restaurant, has an inglenook fireplace with a cast iron Sussex fireback of 1657.

In the background (centre) is the Market House, erected in 1836, which was converted to the post office in 1923 by building between and behind its open colonnade.

Beyond the house, on the right, we can just glimpse a chapel.

The varying height of the old houses built of flint and stone with thatch and tile, contrasts with the varying width of the roadway. It is now a village where artists like to work.

The gatehouse was then converted to a domestic house, and it is now the city's folk museum.

Ellesmere Port was a favourite dock for timber from Russia and Scandinavia; from here it was moved all over the north for house building.

The now-closed railway arrived in 1847, but since there were few houses, a station was not built until 1872. There were just five villas here in 1888 when Lord Wimborne built the school.

The Market Place, shown here, has fine 17th- and 18th-century buildings; the 3-storey ashlar-faced house right of centre is a fine example, with its rusticated ground floor stonework, fine pediment

The modern architecture sits very uncomfortably with the earlier buildings – an example is the Fine Fare building, which now houses Super Drug.

Sad to say, the fine thatched house and barn have not survived; only the row of Rose Cottages stand today as a reminder of the tiny village of Wyddial.