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The Chequers pub (centre right) is now a private house; the next building has been demolished, but Chequers House, in the foreground, has been restored, and today sports fine wrought iron railings

In 1898 the house immediately to the right of the church was Bury Farm, with its farmyard of thatched buildings and a great tile-roofed barn.

There is now a housing estate all over this site in the foreground. The old harbour master's house and dock cottages are on the far side, with more recent housing above.

The simple weatherboarded house with the half-hipped roof in the middle of the line of buildings is a public house. It is selling Westerham-brewed ales, though its sign is, unfortunately, illegible.

The elegant classically-designed Senate House is on the right, with King's College Chapel to the left.

The building to the right of Beecroft's was the Tudor house of the Earl of Mansfield. All these buildings were pulled down to make way for the new Council House in the 1920s.

A late Elizabethan and 18th- century mansion described as one of the most important houses in Kent.

The cabin at the top of Clare House pier still occupies its site; however, it was demolished when the promenade was constructed.

The ground floor is barrel-vaulted and the entrance is on the north side at first floor level, both typical defensive measures in tower houses on both sides of the Border.

Bath Lane off East Street, originally called Bathing House Lane, is so named because it used to lead down to a bathing house that was located by the side of the creek.

The medieval manor house, Gawthorp Hall, was bought by the Harewood family, and John Carr was asked to design the new stable block.

The house on the left, demolished in 1980, has been replaced by a two-storey office block of dubious merit, complete with a mansard third storey, while the old Northgate Restaurant beyond, demolished

This very imposing house was built in the 17th century. It once had some fine painted decoration on the interior walls - an example survives in an attic room.

A little further along the Burgess House Furnisher building, a 15th-century open hall and cross-wing house, is now well restored.

Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

This is not the original house or even the location of the original house, which until the 1970s was situated behind the present building.

Opposite is Manor House, perhaps the Manor House of the former Deanshold. We can see the barrier for the school exit on the right.

Another shot of Chatsworth's beautiful French Gardens, this time showing the Egyptian statue of Sekhmet (left), which is now in the house in the Chapel Passage, and 1st Duke's greenhouse, the Camellia

The early 19th-century stucco houses in the distance show how far back from the shore line the early development was.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke between 1806 and 1811.

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

Fen Lane lives up to its name, with farm vehicles and horses being the main traffic.

This Tudor house stood on Foss Street, near its junction with Duke Street. The supports for the overhanging upper floors were finely carved wooden animals.

This stunning 18th-century garden house with Gothic-style decorated windows sits in parkland in the grounds of Frampton Court.