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Close to the Court House, an Elizabethan manor, lies this tranquil pond, constructed to hold water for a mill.

Sadly, they have gone - most of them have fallen into decay or have been converted into modest houses or holiday accommodation.

Beyond the Black Bull inn sign are the three gables of No 2, Pointz House, in which captain Matthew Flinders, the explorer of Australian shores and seas, was born in 1774.

Both Slinfold House (on the left) and Slinfold's stores and post office are clad in an attractive pattern of mathematical tiles, which were very popular in the 18th century.

A prison that has housed some of Britain's most notorious criminals is nearby.

Do you think the horse and cart, left, had dropped them off to enjoy a picnic in this picturesque spot?

This stretch of the coast developed long after Blackpool; with the coming of the tram system, there was much rivalry to purchase land for hotels, hydros and houses.

In the distance are the houses of Clapham Common South Side, some of which survive from the 18th century and more from the 19th.

Behind the houses on the left is the 19th-century St Paul's Church.

There are then two 16th-century houses with jetties, but the grocer's shop is no longer on the corner.

Horses and carts no longer park outside the Wheatsheaf public house, however; but the spire of the parish church can still be seen in the background at the end of Burlington Street, which like the High

In the southern suburb of Redhill, this line of bijou Victorian houses and shops developed alongside the tree-lined common, overlooked by the formidable presence of St John's Church (background).

The Georgian house with its 50 acres of grounds was built between 1714 and 1720 for the Lloyd-Greame family; it was sold to Bridlington Corporation in 1934.

The cliff on the right now has a row of houses at the top.

Housing estates now cover areas where once busy mills throbbed.

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

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

Gainford is noted for its 13th-century church, Georgian houses, narrow streets and one of the finest village greens in the southern part of the county.

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

Almost opposite at No 121 is a plaster-fronted house bearing the date 1697.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

In the distance is the Manor House Hotel, the grandest in the town: in 1949 full board here cost no less than 42 shillings a day. It had its own private staircase down to the beach.

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.

The houses on the left retain their elegant columned early 19th-century shopfronts, while the quirky 1850s building beyond is still the premises of Paxton and Whitfield, cheesemongers in Bath since 1797