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building from the locals: as well as fearing they might end up with a white elephant on their hands, they were understandably concerned that construction would involve the knocking down of a lot of their houses

The projection of the nave walls beyond the wall of the chancel would, as in many churches, have housed the rood-stair in the past.

Looking in the opposite direction from the Coffee Tavern, this view of Hadleigh's High Street shows the George public house and, further down on the same side, the White Lion Hotel.

Tiptree Heath was 'a miserable barren piece of land' haunted by tinkers, squatters, and horse-racing fans.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

The chapter house was added in the 13th century.

Charles Dickens stayed at Rockingham Castle, and wrote part of 'Bleak House' here.

To its left is an 18th-century house with a sundial dated 1767 in the central dormer window. The ford is still in use, as is the narrow, much repaired and altered 13th-century stone bridge.

The house on the right was rebuilt in the 1970s and others have been rendered, with few original windows surviving. The Victorian chapel on the right is now an auction saleroom.

Again, the buildings are the same today - in fact the only difference is the addition of a telephone box in front of Willoughby House on the left.

The Hitchin Playhouse has been replaced by Burtons tailors, the first floor of which houses the Lucania Temperance Billiards Hall. I Pirkis & Son, decorators' merchants, have replaced Gatward's.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

The small kiosk in the centre of the picture housed the camera obscura, which reflected a view of the surrounding area into a large white dish.

This picture was taken in the year when the Mappin Terraces for bears and goats were built and new animal houses constructed.

The houses on the right were often occupied by boot and shoe makers, including John and Thomas Tull, Thomas Albury and George Parsons.

From the 17th century it was a pumping house for the town's water supply - the wheel was turned by horses. Nearby we can see the York Water Works Offices.

Today, it is once again it is a religious house, but for the followers of Buddha.

Known until 1933 as the Kings Arms, the Pack of Cards was built in 1626 as a town house by George Ley to celebrate a win at cards.

The college opened in 1876 in two houses in Park Row with just 87 day students and 234 evening students.

Housed in Kennerley's drapery store, local mail would be sorted and delivered from here. There was even a delivery on Christmas Day.

Goring collected a number of late Victorian and Edwardian riverside houses and boathouses between the river and the village proper. The now tiled boathouse on the right is today a doctor's surgery.

Behind the hipped roofs of Corner House loom the pinnacles of Eton College chapel, built between 1449 and 1483.

The buildings in the foreground and the far left have gone, although the mansard roof of Lindsey House can be seen beyond the stuccoed M-roof.

Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster. This replaced the old palace, which burned down in 1834.