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The name gives the game away - not so long ago it was farmland, and now it is a housing estate.

In the background are the former tram sheds, converted to house Saltaire's complement of trolleybuses.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960, where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged, and appreciated with thunderous applause.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

This is all that remains of the Guesten House, built in 1320 for visitors to the monastery.

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.

Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico. All the buildings beyond it have been demolished and replaced with modern development.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the King to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

Petworth House was re-built at the end of the 17th century; it incorporated a 13th-century chapel and undercroft that was already on the site.

Amberley Castle, which lies on higher ground above the River Arun's flood plain, is in fact a fortified manor house constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries by the Bishops of Chichester as part

Oast houses like these can be seen in the east and middle of the county; they were used for storing hops, which were dried before being despatched to the local brewery.

By 1960 more than 30 years had passed since the house had been given a Jacobean-style facelift. The bastard son of Richard III is buried at the ancient village church.

They have acquired plastic shopfronts at ground level, and now house a tile shop, a dental practice and an Indian restaurant. The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

Now 'The Inn at Whitewell', the place has a reputation for serving good food and was built towards the end of the 14th century as a manor house by Walter Urswyck, a Keeper in the Royal Forest.

Behind the two buses stands the County Sessions House, its splendid multi-columned tower rising over 170 feet into the air.

This pretty village has a number of attractive houses. This picture shows the varied building materials used in Norfolk: flint, clay-lump and the famous Norfolk Red brick.

Beyond the Tavern, the Half Moon Pub had been a beer house for at least fifty years. It is now closed.

Here on the left is the estate office of the Manor House, further up the lane.

The shop is an old property, and so is the long barn (left) under the trees, but some newer houses have appeared. This is limestone country, and there are underground streams and caves hereabouts.

Tenby has observed the weather for the Meteorological Office since 1892, and the tower still houses the sunshine meter.

In the post-war period the provision of Local Authority housing increased to meet the demands of a rising population.