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High Street was where Joseph Cottle opened a bookshop and publishing house in 1791.

The 200-acre estate was acquired by the corporation in 1947; the hall now houses a local history museum, and is also used for exhibitions.

King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

The formidable arboreal specimen behind the building may account for the Crown's alternative name of 'The house up a tree'.

The Old Hall is on the site of the original manor house of the local Balguy family, from which it takes its name.

Flushing's quays were built by Dutch engineers in the 17th century; with the arrival of the Royal Mail Packets, it became a flourishing port with elegant houses occupied by naval officers.

The buildings of the small hamlet remain, but the thatched house on the right has been altered greatly and now has a slate roof.

There are a number of bridges serving mill-works houses.

Across the small valley is a pleasant mixture of modern semi-detached and older terraced houses.

Peasmarsh strings itself out along the main A268 road; its ancient centre of Norman church and Georgian manor house are isolated down a lane to the south.

Ten years before this photograph was taken, this part of East Grinstead became known as Hermitage Lane, taking its name from The Hermitage, an 18th-century house demolished in the 1970s.

It is little changed today, with these attractive gabled houses near the lovely old 14th-century church of St Michael, built by the Knights Hospitallers.

This led to some changes: one 1920s guidebook writer complained that 'the newer, stoutly built houses have almost replaced the cottages that were the joy of artist and photographer'.

The building behind the Jaguar was built in 1550; now the Market House Café, it has been used as tea rooms for many years.

He was sculptor to Prince Albert, and the Fountain is one of the more successful aspects of the design of the house. Note the tower to the right of the main building.

Horning is one of the prettiest villages in Broadland: almost all the houses along the river have waterways and boathouses of their own.

The distant green fields and trees are now replaced by in-fill housing.

The building on the right is the Booth Hall, also known as the Round House, perhaps so called because it was possible to walk all round it without obstruction.

In the shadow of the Lord Nelson Hotel and the lifeboat house, a century on from the first day-trippers, some of the surroundings have altered, fashions have changed and deckchairs are in abundance, but

Lyte was the much loved Victorian parson of the fishing town, living high above the town at Berry Head House.

Oast houses are common in the Weald of Sussex as well as in Kent, and indeed wherever hops are grown.

the village, shows the broach spire of the church of St John the Baptist, rebuilt in 1861, rising above the very attractive slate and stone roofscape of a village of mainly brick and ironstone-faced houses

The fine Palm House stands to the left, and is a major attraction.

A carriage with top-hatted coachman waits patiently outside one of Cheyne Walk's many grand Georgian brick houses. Graceful plane trees screen residents from the more boisterous life on the water.