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A beamed and peg tiled old court house still stands in the main street not far from the White Hart pub, right.

The de Hoghtons have been here since the Conquest, and the house has had several noteworthy visitors in its time.

The cottages were demolished the same year and replaced by council houses.

The central section was the Market House, and dates from c1450. The wing to the left was added as the Guildhall. It was later partly under-built in brick, hence the loss of the jetty.

The house on the left is The Firs, occupied by Miss Cooper. The garage (centre left) belongs to Smith and Wesby, agents for Morris with cars for hire, who are still there today.

The 'Low House' was East Anglian Pub of the Year in 2000.

In 1921 the Sailing Club was founded, and the Club House was built in 1932. It was extended several times and rebuilt in 1981. The steps lead up to the Maybush.

Across the narrow street is the mid 18th-century weather-boarded West Street House with its two-storey bow frontage.

A hundred years before this picture was taken it would have been less desirable, with the nearest passable road a mile away and the best route from one country house to another across the fields.

This picture depicts the spacious village green overlooked by pretty houses and cottages.

The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.

The old smoke house (foreground) was built in 1848 in a romantic style to resemble an ancient castle, complete with mock stone cannons which aided the drainage from the private garden above.

The central building was the Loes and Wilford House of Industry, established in 1767.

The shop (centre) was owned by W A Leeks, who had the new house (right) built in 1965. The shop traded under the same name even though it was owned by Tony Green from 1971.

To the right is the Victorian village hall, now a house.

In the centre is the New Inn public house and tea gardens, formerly owned by Cobbs' Brewery.

When, at the beginning of the 20th century, the pub lost its licence, it then (believe it or not) became a temperance house!

He came in 1958, and before long had acquired a reputation amongst the staff as an escapee, always managing to get away from the island where he was housed.

Yet there is hardly a house that would need a close look'.

It also reminds us of how much can change, since the row of houses shown here have all gone, to be replaced by some bungalows.

The idea was that after its birth, when leaving the house, the newborn child would have to be carried upstairs - there is an old saying that in order to rise in the world you should first go up some stairs

This view up St Margaret's Street shows two fine Georgian buildings: the one on the left has a Tuscan-columned doorway, and the one on the right is Westbury House.

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.

In the chapter house is the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.