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The statue of Queen Victoria, which still stands on the corner, was taken from the front of the stone mason's house, Victoria Cottage, with the scaffolding (beyond the garage).

The house on the top of the gate is a much later addition. So are the corner turrets and battlements of the keep, which were added in 1812.

Today the Pavilion Theatre houses dances and concerts, both of the classical and rock music variety.

Opposite the Mansion House is the Bank of England, a single-storey monolithic edifice, designed in 1734 by George Sampson.

Rochdale adopted this red brick building, correctly named the Orchard, as the Manor House because it was the residence of the Deardens before they purchased the manor from the poet Lord Byron.

The thatched 15th-century Swan Inn, owned by Ind Coope, closed in 1983 and reopened as a free house in 1984.

The housing forming a triangular shape on the left was a unique example of early industrial dwellings, but it was demolished, despite protests, in December 1977.

Opened on 19 July 1911 to house the Royal Liver Insurance Company, this was the country's first building to be constructed from reinforced concrete.

The timber-framed Tudor House, one of the city's finest buildings, dates back to about 1500, and has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

church is on the hill- side.The photograph shows the view from the side of Stane Street, which is now very busy.The scene now is little changed, although the almshouses have been converted into one house

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

The houses on the right must have been newly built, as they do not appear on the OS map of 1896.

The houses are divided from the hill by a vein of stiff clay (good wheat land), yet stand on a rock of white stone.'

The sad looking building on the left was the Plough public house. In 1928 it was said to have a saloon, a lounge and a dining room, and it sold Bass, Youngers, Hammerton Stout and Fremlin Pale Ale.

The houses behind are late Victorian.

The public house on the right is The White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign.Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's

Beyond it, the pair of gables belong to one of a crescent of 1950s council houses.

The white house across the road was, until 1908, The Sun - a rival for The Star (opposite).

The 18th- and early 19th-century cottages on the left face the timber-framed house, which was built as a single dwelling in 1540; it is continuously jettied with a hearth-passage entrance

The lower sash windows of the houses on the left have been replaced by casement windows, and their number increased. On the right, a doorway has been replaced by a window.

This view, from the footbridge onto the Island, is a photograph of what has passed - for all to the left of the sash-windowed and pedimented house on the right was cleared away in the 1950s.

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

Here the old town landing-stage is north of the bridge; the quay is much altered, with the boathouse now the Mill House pub.

The best house in this view is the one with the diagonal chimneystacks, The Grove: it is Tudor, with an 18th-century pink-washed facade and a superb Queen Anne door hood.