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The large house beyond has become a residential home for the elderly.

Thomas Williams and George Barrat appear to have kept bawdy houses.

The Associated British Cinema's picture house is photographed at a time when such places had fewer things to compete with for people's time and money; private car ownership was still beyond most people

By 1812 the schools run by John Whittaker had over 2,000 children enrolled, and ideally Whittaker needed one large building to house them all.

The turreted and lead domed building of 1903, now Dorothy Perkins, survives, but the left hand one was replaced by a nine-storey monster office block, Berkshire House, and others were swept away in the

This remarkable and historic view from high on the Houses of Parliament shows Queen Victoria's open landau leading the procession across Westminster Bridge.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Mapledurham House - behind the trees - has been used as a film set in Inspector Morse mysteries, and also in the film 'The Eagle Has Landed'.

At this point it met the Oxford Canal; there used to be a small lock outside the house. This building is now British Waterways offices.

The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.

The distinctive cafe now houses a hairdresser's shop.

Walsh's Camp at Roman Bank is pictured here against the background of the Winthorpe housing estate; it is still there, but it has been updated and has many more caravans.

The goods sidings and the horse-drawn covered wagon complete this typical station scene. In the background rears Carn Brea, with its monument and castle.

The Huer's House is identical today, even down to the granite railing posts. Sited up on the headland near the harbour, this is where the huer waited to spot incoming pilchard shoals.

In this view from the pier virtually all the houses still survive, many now in a state of serious decay and others drastically altered.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

A horse-drawn omnibus can be seen in the distance in this Edwardian photograph.

It was decided to house them somewhere so that they could be close to the Minster, but out of the way of trouble.

Here, where South Gate meets North Gate, are the town's finest commercial buildings, such as the HSBC bank of 1903 on the left and the Sessions House of 1830 in Gothick style with a pointed arched ground

It developed around the railway station when houses were built for middle-class Victorian families who chose to live surrounded by beautiful woodland scenery.

In 1759 he also took on the lease of Penns House, which became Penns Hall.

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.

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.

There is very little grazing in this street apart from the gardens fronting the houses on the left - fortunately, the garden gates are all securely closed!