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The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north. The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

Opened in 1885, the Art Gallery and Museum was designed by Yeoville Thomason, who had also designed the adjoining Council House.

On the left is a corner of the Norman House, built in stone around 1180.

This tranquil street of handsome houses fringing the river was built in 1708.

Boscawen Street is certainly refined, and its considerable width is due to the demolition of a central row of houses in Regency times.

Some old stone houses remain, and nearby is a scenic stretch of the River Nene.

The Bull Hotel, rebuilt in the 1930s, is a somewhat pedestrian and incongruous mock-Tudor effort, while the house on the left is now a bistro.

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

The lock keeper's cottage (left) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

The houses in the background can no longer be seen, as the trees have grown.

Rolle Street takes its name from the Rolle family of Bicton House, who owned the land on which much of modern day Exmouth stands.

beside the slope leading up to the church, is not entirely apparent from this picture, which groups it with an adjacent dwelling and another stone building beyond, which has since been converted into a house

Mock-Tudor houses are typical of the area, though these have a pleasanter outlook than most. It may be pleasant, but not necessarily peaceful, as they stand close to the A41.

These days, the building houses McDonald's fast food restaurant, who gave the site a much-needed facelift.

The lower building to the immediate right of the Temperance Hotel was a public house, the Old Pier Vaults, an interesting combination!

This tranquil street of handsome houses fringing the river was built in 1708.

It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

Early 19th-century bow-fronted and balconied houses jostle with mid-Victorian Italianate stucco at varying heights and scales.

This unusual view shows the Mount's estate houses and a harbour wall, with Marazion stretched out along the coast and Trencrom Hill rising behind on the extreme left.

This shows the rear of the house now known as Greyfriars.

The thatched Chantry House, on the right, survived the devastating fire of 1795, which destroyed many of the older buildings in this once prosperous mediaeval market town.

This is an excellent example of the seemingly inexorable tide of uniform London County Council housing which swept northwards to engulf this former hamlet of Elstree after the Second World War.