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One of the first buildings that the visitor will meet is the picturesque 15th-century thatched Axe and Compasses public house (centre).

The Cock public house (left) stands at the corner of Church Lane opposite Braggs Lane. The Cock is now a particularly fine restaurant, and has been awarded recognition by Les Routiers.

Next to the small 15th-century parish church, out of view to the right, is Dodington Hall, a long Elizabethan manor house of 1581.

forest.There were two brick works in the village.A road of brick cottages is seen next to the Wesleyan church.The scene has now altered: the left- hand side of the road has been developed with houses

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.

Behind the houses was Raby Park, an imposing housing development stimulated by the arrival of the railway.

On the left is Porch House, a heavily-restored 16th-century house, now a bank, with the pavement passing through its ground floor.

The carrier's wagon outside the post office gives an old-fashioned view to this 1950s view - but milk floats and rag and bone carts were also still horse-drawn well into the late 1950s.

The public house has long been a vital constituent of city life. Here customers could relax after the day's toil with a tankard of porter.

In its time, it has held tea parties, dancing, football, cricket, flower shows, horse-races and prize-fights. There were once several ponds on the green: this is now the only one.

A farmer in the Neath valley who had moved to Merthyr, and had worked as a haulier and later a collier, he ran the Six Bells public house and brewery. In 1862 he opened the Six Bells coal level.

The 1905 primary school is on the left beside the Ford Consul, next to a pair of 1920s brick houses.

The building on the left is the masters' boarding house.

Next down the street (left of centre) is the Castle Inn which was rebuilt by Sir Frederick Weld after a fire in 1887, with Chideock House below it.

The medieval core is rich in vernacular houses, and this atmospheric photograph shows a quite excellent example.

The right of the harbour now accommodates some rather incongruous housing, while the warehousing on the left has also given way to housing.

Not a hatless head to be seen as the open-top tram, en route to Frindsbury across the river, passes the lantern and railings of Eastgate House, threatening conflict with horse-drawn traffic.

This row of houses is still there today, but perhaps looking a little more looked-after.

The name Egremont was given to a big house built by John Askew, who bought land here. He called the house Egremont to remind him of where he was born in the Lake District.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

The Old Hatch, the cross-winged house on the left, has heavy Horsham sandstone roof slates. The petrol station on the right has been replaced by a 1970s pair of houses.

New Houses was built in 1788, and Fawside Green and Dudley Place in 1790. Also dating from 1790 is Iceton House, which was once the pay office.

A girls' hostel was added in 1972, and sheltered housing for the elderly was built in 1982. That year the hospital moved to Charlton Road and Cricklade College took overe the workhouse as classrooms.