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The Red Lion public house and the National Westminster Bank in the centre of the picture are still there, but Burgon's grocery store (right) is long gone.

High House Farm, far right, was the home of the dominant agricultural owner in the 17th century.

Three miles inland from Hornsea, Seaton was an estate village surrounding the old manor house. It has two village greens and a pond.

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Stone-built weavers' houses, carpet weaving mills, and rope works all jostled for space along the banks of the river.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

The road on the right, Vaughan Road, now leads into an estate with a number of new houses.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

By the middle 1930s the Borough Council had outgrown the offices at the Town Hall, and departments were housed in various buildings around the town.

The view from Kingston Lacy House shows the wooded Badbury Rings on the horizon.

Housing now lines the eastern side of Forest Gate Road.

A new house was built to a design by Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of St Pancras Station and London's Natural History Museum.

This now allows access to the car park behind the manor house, some doors along. The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof.

The shop on the right is no longer a shop, now just a house. Today the pub on the left is the Master Builder, and owned by Wadworth's.

Upper Stroud is in the distance, with Park Road below, still at this period containing only a few large private houses.

Until the modern causeway was built in 1980, this medieval bridge provided the only crossing point over the River Ouse between Huntingdon and Earith.

This attractive terrace of houses lies close to the sea on the north side of the Headland, which is beyond the buildings in the centre distance.

This parade of large shops and houses are just round the corner from the station. The pebbly storm beach gives way to a vast fine sandy beach, covered in this photograph by a high tide.

In the 1960s the Dave Clarke Five played in the Mecca in Blenheim House. The nightclub was later called Raquel's - it closed in the 1970s.

The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.

The assassin hid in a house belonging to John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews. Moray's friends hanged Hamilton at Stirling in 1571. They did not go to the expense of a trial.

The red and white pinnacles of the tower, just visible in the picture, remind one of the tower of a Tudor house.

Close by St John's Gate is this narrow alley of tall tile-hung shops and houses, which lean precariously over so that residents might almost stretch out and shake hands from their windows.

This quaint old house sits on a corner in Lincoln's Inn Fields.