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The building today is a private dwelling, Waterloo House.

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

Little of the original priory has survived, but parts of it may have been used when Priory House in the foreground was built in around 1700.

The skiffs and punts available for hire across the water are from what is now the Great House Hotel.

Six people lived in this two-bedroomed house; it belonged to David Lloyd George's uncle, the village shoemaker, who had offered his widowed mother a home.

Overlooking the scene is the grand building and clock tower housing Barclays Bank.

The shops and houses to the right of the church have all gone; now, trees form the boundary. The whole scene is overlooked by the tower and steeple of St Peter and St Paul's church.

Originally the village extended no further than Back Lane, Coldstream Lane, the High Street and the houses in the vicinity of the green, which we see in this photograph.

This picture shows the village post office, delightfully housed in a picturesque thatched cottage. Most of Milton Malsor's buildings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the distance to the north, earlier housing estates, mostly Pre-War and 1950s, can be seen - the Development Corporation plans mainly expanded the town to the south and north-east.

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.

Islip remains a small village, with mostly stone cottages and houses. This view looks through the 1903 lychgate towards the crocketted spire of the 15th-century parish church.

The Victorian Gothic pile of a country house is now Overstone Park School, situated in the centre of the vast park. This view was taken by the eastern lake.

Next door there is now a bookmaker, and the Trustee Savings Bank building now houses Messrs Dexter & Sharp, who are accountants.

Brecon House (third from left) operated as a telegraphic office and later as the village telephone exchange until 1937 – a new automated system forced relocation.

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

In 1921 the estate covered 245 acres, of which 194 were scheduled for a variety of uses including parkland, housing schemes, allotments and so on.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

The bridge, complete with pedestrian refuges, is thought to be 15th-century: some of the houses facing the bridge date from the early 17th to early 19th centuries.

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

In the picture there are close-studded timber-framed houses on the left, including Sexton's shop. The Hay Wagon Inn is just visible on the right, with a temporary sign.

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae. Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church.