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Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming professional and business people.

The Eyot (meaning island) is called after Richard D'Oyly Carte; he strengthened the banks of a small island in the River Thames below Shepperton Lock, and built this large house upon it in 1889.

This house was originally called Gravenhurst.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place. It was rebuilt all of a piece after a devastating fire in 1708.

Situated on the corner of Queen's Road and Westwood Drive, this guest house was also a victim of changing times.

Leading up Pier Avenue from the Marine Parade corner, the first pair of houses on the left, known as Clarence Villas, was built in 1874.

Sackville House, on the far left, has now had its timber-framing exposed. Beyond is Dorset House, brick with a deep eaves cornice and dating from 1705.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place. It was rebuilt all of a piece after a devastating fire in 1708.

Sherborne House School was established in 1933 by Mrs E Wise, whose family came from Sherborne in Dorset.

A number of large houses with spacious grounds were built, but most are now converted into flats.

The Museum of the Broads is now housed in the brick building with decorative arches alongside the staithe.

Apart from the demolition of the late 18th-century house, in the centre, little has changed visually.

The taller building straight ahead was Manor House Dairy, supplying butter, cheese and eggs. To the left is the hall of the first WI to be established in East Suffolk - it started in September 1918.

West Borough's town houses are mostly mid-to late-18th century, built when this part of Wimborne was first developed. Note the first-floor bay window on the right.

The view shows how most of Broadstone looked before the heathland was engulfed by housing estates in the 1960s and later.

This is the second public house of the village, and a lot less famous than the Maypole. It was originally a beer house, which was established as the village grew.

The gabled row of houses leads towards a railway bridge with St Andrew`s Church beyond.

A quay has been constructed in front of Quay House on the left, where there appears to be a good fire burning in the grate. In the background is the Royal Arms Hotel.

A lawyer, Edward Bysshe, enlarged the house in the 17th century, and admitted that the money came from 'fees of foolish clients'.

With its white weather-boarded houses and leafy glades, this village was once home to Viscount Rothermere.

The 1850s houses between it and the photographer were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a large council housing estate, Peckford Place.

The Tudor houses have been subdivided to provide houses for the poorer members of the village. The children have just come out of the National School.

Behind the war memorial is Church House, the former Guildhall.

Little Terrace (centre on above photograph) was built as a terrace of fashionable lodging houses by a Brighton bricklayer named William Hall circa 1794.