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

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

To the west of Old Quad (above, 72159) lies Old Big School, surmounted by School House dormitories.

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

North of Main Street, the dignified 1950s council housing was built on The Leys field.

The elegant Victorian life boat house with its round tower and conical roof, quite new at this time, has now gone, and a modern concrete life boat station replaces it further south-east, painted an attractive

Radnor Cliff was where many of the town's wealthy residents lived; here their houses overlook the beach, where a naval man appears to be getting his boat ready for sailing.

For many years it housed the famous antiquarian bookshop Beach's, which survived until 1999.

It was designed to emulate Queen Victoria's home on the Isle of Wight, Osborne House. Bought by the Council in the 1930s it was then converted for use as a Town Hall.

The shop and the house next door have been replaced by a modern parade of shops.

A religious house was founded in Pershore in about 689.

Development with houses for staff was rapid. Now there is not a single vacant plot.

this view is, admiration is tempered by the knowledge that the road leading to the south transept was created by the demolition in the 1830s of the mainly 12th-century monastic dormitory and chapter house

Old Mote House, its predecessor, was the childhood home of Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492), mother of the 'princes in the tower'.

A more modern view of St Ives, with flower boxes gracing the windows of the houses and with smart whitewashed walls. Today, there is a very fine art gallery here, the Wills Lane Gallery.

Robert Wynn was a prominent gentleman and merchant, and his house displayed all the good taste that would be expected of a man of such standing.

The timber-framed house dates from the late 15th or early 16th century, though it was extended later on.

Sheffield Polytechnic was formed in 1969 with the amalgamation of the Sheffield Colleges of Technology and Art; the new institution was housed in purpose-built facilities on land between Howard

We see it just before the site was developed for full-size housing.

Standing beside the pier, it housed Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, a major attraction in this area. On the left of the picture we can see the boating lake.

It retains its rural seclusion in spite of recent threats: plans for a major housing development, just north of here at Tillingham Hall, were challenged and overturned in 1987.

Some of its early character remains, but there has also been considerable later development, typical of which are the houses glimpsed here.

The shops and houses mix with small workshops and boundary walls. On the left is the post office, and babies in coach-built prams.