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The High Street has many interesting houses, some dating back to the 16th century. Over the years they have been repaired and re-fronted, making them look more modern than they really are.

The thatched building on the right housed the premises of Acre End Stores, run by T Hall & Son. The shop, long since closed, is now a private dwelling called Long Cottage.

To the east of the house, the swimming pool, with its red-brick orangery designed by Reginald Cooper in the mid 1930s, presents a peaceful well-ordered scene.

The north side of George Street is raised above the roadway; at the left is part of Edgar Buildings, completed in 1762, whose centrally-pedimented houses close the vista up Milsom Street.

Adam adapted Palladio's own design for a bridge with shops and houses to produce an elegant masterpiece. However, it ruined the builder, and parts had to be reconstructed as early as 1804.

The building on the left, the Old Mill, is a house with an added balcony, while that to the right is now the well known Morris Minor Centre.

This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

This village view looks north past Street Farm on the right, and although the big barn on the right has gone, the houses all remain.

Neat flowerbeds surround the drinking fountain with its quaint spire, while in the background, just beyond Jenner's garage and petrol pump, the name of the Smugglers public house hints at past activities

Set in the valley of the River Stour, its Tudor and Jacobean houses have been carefully maintained, and further up the street is the old Woolpack Inn.

These trim houses with their first-floor verandas overlooking the shingle beach and breakwaters, and the neat gardens behind their fences, present an almost idyllic seaside vista.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

As the new housing estates at Westy grew up from the 1920s, this became a vital route for those working in Howley's industries.

The building is now a private house: the porch has been demolished and the canteen (right), with its gable removed, has been converted into a garage.

The thatched house with a brick front is The Rooks of c1620. The horse and trap are coming up Old Paper Mill Lane, which seems too narrow to have enabled the van and the trap to pass.

The 18th-century white plastered house is the former Town Hall, reminding us of the town's former borough status.

All Saints' church on the left is a wonderful example of how churches can continue to be houses of worship, while changing their role slightly to suit modern demands.

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

The George & Dragon public house in the foreground (left) was demolished in 1964 to allow very long concrete pillars to be transported around the corner.

Olton Boulevard East was created from former country lanes in 1928, to serve a vast municipal housing estate reckoned to be a model of its kind.

This is one of them, a beautiful Elizabethan property rebuilt on the site of an earlier moated house by prosperous merchant Richard Smallbroke in 1575.

Along the street in the picture was a special bath house, as well as a number of new hotels and lodgings.

Shown here is the sequence of houses that were built by wealthy Georgian merchants; several of the properties are now professional premises.