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One rooftop of 1860 shows the Royal Insignia; it was the Court House, Lowergate (just out of this photograph).

The White Horse Inn (facing us, left) is now the last of seven public houses that are said to have once traded in the village; it is remarkable that the local population of so many small

The old smithy has been here since 1795 - it is still open, and now also houses a small museum.

Grape Nuts, Bovril and Rowntrees Cocoa give a clue as to his produce, sold from what Frith called the oldest house in Frome.

The stylish design of Berthold Lubetkin's enclosures at Dudley Zoo is seen to good effect in this view of the Gorilla House.

The King's Head in The Street in Capel, a village now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road, is now a private house, and its once sterile car park is now an attractive front garden

The White Hart has had the paint removed from its front and is now no longer a straightforward village pub, but a Bluebecker's Eating House.

The big painted stone house in the left distance, No 15, is mainly 17th- and 18th-century, and has some stone mullioned windows.

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics. The scene is not so tranquil today, thanks to the traffic.

The photograph clearly illustrates the village expansion with housing that could literally be anywhere.

The canal bypasses Fleckney on its eastern side; the photograph looks north east across Second Lock, towards Kibworth bridge and Bridge House, as the waterway winds towards Newton Harcourt

This fairly graceful early 19th-century shopping arcade, with its weatherboarded houses with large shop windows under a colonnade of thin cast iron columns, included a general hardware and implement

This view was taken from near the Bedford Rowing Club clubhouse just before the buildings on the right were demolished for Swan House in 1960.

The tall lean rickety Dickensian building in front of the church housed the electricity and waterworks offices.

This view looks east past the much-reduced George pub, with Burton's facade beyond, to the junction of Cambridge Street at the left and High Street to the right of the Round House.

Owned by the National Trust, the building houses a number of literary relics, which these visitors have come to peruse.

The domed tower topped with a weather vane housed the public baths, whilst the grandiose hotel catered for the wealthy merchants.

Mansion House, the lavish building on the left, has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor for two centuries. It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

Lobster pots, small fishing boats and flint cobble walled fishermen's cottages survive the tide of modern housing.

Here were the magnificent municipal buildings, completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000, including the post office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

Mansion House dates from 1826. The Mayor of Leeds, John Barran, the pioneer of mass clothing, bought it at auction in 1871; he then sold it at cost to the Leeds Corporation.

The house was divided into three parts in 1919, and is now used as offices by a major building company.

We can see the steepness of the streets by comparing the level of the Laurel Inn with the houses rising up behind.

They were designed by the local architect William Legg and were built in 1801, incorporating in their design elements from both Burghley and Wothorpe Houses, to celebrate the 10th Earl's elevation to the