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This beautiful collection of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses includes the hotel and public house the George and Dragon, shown on the right, a fine example of Tudor architecture in an historic

The lower parts of the chapel were built in 1330 as a charnel house, but it became a chantry chapel, endowed by John Holman, in 1449.

This famous coaching inn is situated in that part of Barrowford which stretches along Gisburn Road, where many interesting old properties stand; it was built originally as the great house of the Hargreaves

The town's fine Market House dates from 1698; it rests on an arcade of pillars that are unusual in that they are made of stone on the outside, and timber on the inside.

This superb 15th-century house became the home of Essex stockbroker James Corbett and his wife Alice between 1854 and 1912, where they raised their two daughters.

Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

On the right we can see the timber-framed Tudor walls of The Corner House.

The roof of the New Inn can be seen through the trees (left); next to it is Wharf House, built in 1815 as the wharfinger's residence by the Company of Proprietors of the Basingstoke Canal.

The view shows the Rose and Crown public house and, on the right, the row of fine mansard roofed terraced houses. Each of the doorways has its own fine web fanlight.

Built about 1726, in the early 20th century High House was a co-educational boarding school founded by Harry Lowerinson.

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart.

The name and licence were moved from a public house standing on the corner of the churchyard and owned by the parish. The rent was paid to the Overseer for the relief of the poor.

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

The house is one of the very few left that are 'pre Esplanade', itself occupying the site of an earlier farm.

To the north is a housing estate that replaced the army buildings when the National Defence College, based on Latimer House, closed in the 1980s.

Porritt houses had the reputation of being fine residential properties: Mr Porritt spent a quarter of a million pounds using the best materials, including stone from his quarries in East Lancashire.

The house to the left, built c1500, had a single-storey shop extension added c1800. The house to the right has been rebuilt with dormer windows.

Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three- storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the secondary layer of houses, including those of the

At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house.

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. Opposite is Ixworth Dairy, with a Gothic shop front.

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

Robert Willance lived in the whitewashed house with large chimneystack on the right (Willance miraculously survived when in 1606 his horse bolted and fell 200 feet).

This parade of shops, housed in a building displaying the influence of the eastern reaches of the British Empire, suggests a steady trade.

His home, The White House (diagonally opposite) is a Grade II* listed building built in 1812 for a local banker. It is a fine and important example of an elegant town house.