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Now it is a house and a tiny plate above the shop window reads 'The Old Post Office'. Four and a half days a week, the Village Hall hosts the Post Office.

More recently, St Margaret's was the home of two literary giants, Noel Coward and later Ian Fleming, who rented a house from Coward. It was here that Fleming wrote some of his James Bond novels.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

The Elephant and Castle, a great meeting place of thoroughfares, was termed a ‘ganglion of roads’ by Dickens in ‘Bleak House’.The squat old inn that gave it its name dominates the scene, and is offering

Because of its prestigious reputation and close proximity to the Bank, city financiers clamoured to live here, and annual rents from a single house could reach the incredible sum of three hundred

This photograph shows the Cannon Street end of King William Street, which heads south-east from the Mansion House towards London Bridge.

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.

Waterloo House has also gone, to be replaced by an office building, though the church tower is still clearly visible.

Towcester is a small old town on the Tove, with a number of Georgian houses and a pleasant market place.

Beyond are 1890s houses, now unpleasantly re-windowed.

A complex house architecturally with 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century elements, it has long been owned by Northamptonshire County Council and used for residential and day courses.

Now within the village, Frith's photographer looks down one of the estate roads, with their undistinguished 'Anywheresville' modern houses, towards the High Street.

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.

The house beyond was the forge, run by the Stone family, who were also parish sextons. Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers' houses and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

The Vale of Glamorgan used to grow a great deal of corn, ensuring ample straw for thatching, and the pretty village of Merthyr Mawr is entirely made up of whitewashed, thatched houses.

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.

The company was assailed by financial difficulties in 1913, and very few houses were ever completed.

Created in the International Art Deco style, its north facing entrance (pictured here) housed the nurses' quarters.

described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and 'Barnaby Rudge' were all written by him in houses

Note the large gilt letters above Bradford House.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.