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Very little remains of Clare House Pier. The promenade is busy with people, a number of whom are partaking of refreshments at tables outside the tearooms.

The timber building at the far end is known as the Bible House.

The Plough Inn and the surrounding houses are mostly built of local stone and tiled with Collyweston slate.

The lock chamber is to the left of this historic view, and the house beyond the trees can be seen in photograph 43000.

Shop signs display familiar and unfamiliar names, and plenty of attractive old houses are still in evidence in the background.

Here was the famous American Coffee House, where merchants with interests in the colonies met to discuss business. On the right is horse-drawn cart of the Royal Mail.

The large house on the left bears the sign Morgan, but from this angle has no other indication that it is the usual general store.

Pegwell Bay houses the replica Viking dragon-headed longship which was rowed and sailed from Denmark to Broadstairs to celebrate the 1500th anniversary of the landing of Hengist and Horsa; it arrived

The houses in the background are those in Southwell Park Road. The tennis courts and bowling green are to the left.

A number of the older houses in Broadway were originally inns, for the village lay on the London to Worcester coaching route.

This was the last decade when horse-drawn traffic reigned supreme on Nottingham's streets.

The Three Horse Shoes public house on the left and the Albert Hotel on the right have been pulled down.

Both clerical gentlemen led the local smuggling gangs, hiding the contraband in the old vicarage - now a beautiful thatched house called Vicars Mead.

Smartened up, with its brickwork painted, the mill is now a house. It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

In the centre is the well-known harbour inn, The Tartar Frigate, while Bleak House looks down over the holiday scene.

Often described as 'the most romantic and complete medieval manor house in England', Haddon Hall, the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Rutland, is seen here on its limestone bluff overlooking the River

The Chester Northgate Brewery Co's premises have been demolished and replaced by a half-timbered revival building housing the booksellers W H Smith.

Ringwood's houses date from most periods of England's history and include some modern buildings - for this is both a commuter town and a favourite place for retirement.

W Kemp's shop, on the right, is now a private house. Behind the photographer is the ancient church of St Nicholas.

The district has the first and last house and hotel, so why not a tree? The fact that trees are a rarity in this windswept peninsula makes this more significant. There is a low haystack beyond.

The front of this charming Georgian house, with its bay windows and portico at the front door, is now obscured by the addition of a single-storey annexe which provides a riverside eating area for customers

The Bear and Billet public house in Lower Bridge Street was built in 1664. At some time during the 19th century the pub frontage has been modified so that there are continuous windows on two floors.

The now much enlarged thatched house on the right is the only Bridge Inn building standing today; the left-hand one has been demolished.

The few houses that have frontage to the river would never have anticipated the growth of residential building that would later take place here.