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In the 1970s, it housed H Donaghue, the fish, game and poultry merchants.

The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917. The Post Office bought it for their use and moved from King Street in 1919. A lamp-post sign stands outside.

This early Elizabethan mansion was built on the site of the former house of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds by Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, who founded the hospital on the Green.

It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

Tyre transformed the farm buildings into a modest Georgian house, which was given the name of Denbies. When Tyre died in 1767, the Hon Peter King purchased the estate.

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

Pound House is behind the telegraph pole. The 1879-dated Reading Room is down the street from Rock House (right of centre), with the gable-end of the Three Horseshoes in the foreground (far right).

Built on a massive plinth, with balustrades above and cellars below, the high-Gothic lines of Rousdon House rise above lawns which slope away towards the Undercliff.

The present red-brick house supersedes the much smaller original one designed for Jebb by Sir William Chambers; although it is large, with re-used features salvaged from other demolished London buildings

Butlin House (left) has been replaced by a functional modern building. Most of the rest of those buildings are in the main still there, but they do not look as impressive as they did in 1955.

A turn of the century view of the promenade, showing Holy Trinity Church, Bleak House and the harbour.

We can see the Esplanade Hotel (centre) and Steartfield House (right), the homes of Mortimer and Washington Singer.

In the great days of the Old Town, Canongate Street was where members of the Scottish aristocracy had their town houses.

It is now a housing estate.

Built of honey-coloured sandstone, the old castle is in fact a 14th-century L-plan tower house built by the de Middleton family.

This 18th-century house links the family with the first Hill arrivals. It stands on the foundations of a fort built about 1639 by Sir Arthur Hill after he left a post at Carrickfergus Castle.

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic House

This is a typical E-shaped house. Some have claimed that the design was a tribute to Elizabeth I.

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard. The youngest to oldest inhabitants are represented here.

This picture shows the rear of the property, a very fine example of an East Lancashire house of the later 16th century.

The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.

Gifford House, used as its offices by the BDC, was built in 1924 for the rector of Bowers Gifford, who used it as a college for coaching students for the universities.

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.