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Now known as the Great Chamber, this magnificent partly oak-panelled room was originally part of the 14th-century house, but it was largely reconstructed by Sir Henry Vernon in about 1500.

A solitary soldier from the First World War stands sentinel on Dronfield's simple war memorial in the main street, opposite the White Swan public house (the licensee in 1965 was Alfred Edward Greeves).

Behind the old post office, now an extended house, is the railway line, with the nearest station at Kiplingcotes.

To the right is the old school house, now today's post office. Far right is the base of the market cross.

Local lore says that they are a good luck charm, and that having a piece in your house will prevent it burning down.

This splendid early 19th-century house is the former rectory. The symmetrical front has five window bays; the central bay over the porch has rounded tops.

The building at the far right now houses the West Stockwith Yacht Club, and was extended in the 1970s.

Older children could buy bags of corn for a few pennies from the caretaker's house with which to feed the birds.

The pit engine house and shaft is now in the distance.

Church House was built in the High Street next to the minster in 1906 at a cost of £2,870 14s 11d. It replaced Sansom's ironmonger's shop, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Salisbury.

The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white. Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop.

The spacious market place or square in the centre of the Wensleydale village of Masham is surrounded by fine 18th- and 19th-century houses, with the ancient market cross under the trees as its centrepiece

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

Barclays Bank (left) closed in 1998, and the grocer's shop, then International Stores and finally Gateway, closed in 1983 and is now private housing.

Lying just outside the eastern edge of Stewart Park, The Grove represents one of the most exclusive local neighbourhoods, but more houses have been built since this view was taken, and traffic restrictions

The shop and the building beside it have since been converted into a private house.

Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction. Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.

The building is twelve storeys high, and houses the support collection for the whole of Kent as well as specialist collections of music, drama and recorded sound and a large general collection.

The house was built in 1751 by Samuel Greathead on the site of an Elizabethan mansion. In the 1920s domestic staff at Guy's Cliffe worked a six-and-a-half-day week.

In 1712 twenty houses were destroyed in a fire. Then, in February 1846, fire destroyed the produce of two large farms, as well as fifteen cottages. Twenty-four families lost their homes.

The present castle is a battlemented house dating from around 1800, and the seat of the Wharton family. It was the birthplace of Commander Wild, an Antarctic explorer.

Later Captain Truelove used the hanger to house his Avro seaplane for tourist flights around Torbay. In the background are the buildings of the Preston Railway 'stop off' for visitors to the beach.

In the years since, public houses such as the King's Arms have had to attract a clientele form further afield in order to survive.

The sands are no longer deserted, but packed with holidaymakers, and new houses have appeared above the railway line in the background since the 1922 photograph.