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The church of St John the Baptist was built c1450, and so was the timber- framed Guild House just visible beyond the church in this view.

The buildings in the foreground - including the Marchioness of Exeter's Almshouses - were demolished about 40 years ago and replaced by modern houses, garages and a car park.

To the left is the Manchester Warehouse, 'complete house furnishers'. The heavily laden coach appears to serve either the Royal Gatehouse or the Lion Hotel.

The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.

Most of the houses on the left-hand side cater for holidaymakers, and new businesses have opened up to capture their trade. The pub on the left is the White Horse Inn dating from 1851.

It remained in use as a private house until about 1959, from when it served as an hotel for about forty years.

A plaque tells us that a fragment remains of the house in which Edward I held his parliament and in which the Statute of Rhuddlan was passed in 1284, and in the gable end medieval windows

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

The houses of Fort Crescent, which run across this picture, were built in the 1820s—it was the most fashionable part of Margate at that time.

There is a glimpse of the Great House - visited by the earl of Chatham with 15-year-old William Pitt the Younger - before Star Supply Stores and the Royal Lion Hotel (centre).

The 1970s concrete- fronted Golate House opposite the Sandringham Hotel perhaps the only exception.

Today, Worcestershire County Museum is housed in the north wing.

He gave the title of the book to his house, Shandy Hall, on the western edge of the village. Halfway down the village street on the left we can see the white-painted Fauconberg Arms.

It was originally intended for Sauvignac monks, but by 1147 it had become a Cistercian house.

The house with the timbered gable stands just north of an ancient junction where Evesham Road (the prehistoric Ridgeway) meets Feckenham Road and Sambourne Lane.

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

The roofs behind, parallel to the High Row of the Market Place, are houses in Waterloo Street, demolished in 1963.

The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

Among the many old buildings in this stretch of the High Street is the Tudor brick Eastgate House, seen on the right, and now the Charles Dickens Centre.

Stanwoods (centre right) is the former Chantry House of the Gurteen family, great employers and benefactors in the town. The 1950s Boots (left) is on the site of the Anchor Temperance Coffee Tavern.

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.