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Here we see a variety of village houses with a bicycle shop selling Raleigh bicycles, inner tubes and puncture kits. At the end of the street is the great medieval hall house, Emplins.

As this was once the Wheatsheaf public house mentioned in the caption to A139009 (page 66), it had obviously closed by the time this photograph was taken. Today it is a private house.

Behind is the clock tower of the Tercentenary School House of which the Headmaster's House forms part. The lovely lawns and trees are typical of the well-kept gardens throughout the school.

A few hundred yards along the present B1514 road past the turning to Pepys House, the road forks at the roundabout where the main road runs eastwards towards the A14 and the left road takes us

Down the north side of the street are the post office, and the Great House, where William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham brought his 15-year-old son, Pitt the Younger, to recover from illness

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down house constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

The house on the right is Kenwood, which has its entrance in Corfe View Road. Immediately behind is Eaton Hall in Highmoor Road.

The large house next to Lloyds Bank was once a doctor's surgery, and it is now a public house known as the Inn on the Green.

The effect of the new bridge on housing nearby can be seen in this photograph.

This pretty house sits back away from the road, and is the Warden's house for the Girl Guides Camping Ground.

Beyond the slipway (centre) are the open doors of the new lifeboat station, built in 1984 and housing the Spirit of Derbyshire, a Mersey Class boat capable of 16 knots and with a range of 145 nautical

The house has now completely gone, and the lands are occupied by a new and very pleasant housing estate. Thre name survives, however, as the estate is called Henshall Hall Drive.

The original house on Holme Island was built by John Fitchett of Warrington in 1832.

The house facing the green was the Bedford's pied-a-terre from 1550-1910. The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.

In the centre the church stands above the distant houses. Note the house to the centre right: the road has been built up here, and the entrance is now below road level.

Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill. It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

The thatched roof of Norfolk reed covers the main house and the outbuildings in one enormous sweep, reaching almost to the ground.

The classic Palladian west front of Chatsworth House, seen from the banks of the River Derwent.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Of the three arches at the north end, the central one leads to the chapter house, whilst those on either side were book cupboards where the abbey library was housed.

The title 'Old Guest House' may refer to the building which housed visiting clergy before 1856, when this was the rectory of the Chancellors of Salisbury, the patrons of All Saints' Church.

Hundreds of houses in old Taunton were torn down during Victorian times and throughout the 20th century, particularly in the aftermath of the First World War.

A lane leads left to the church and manor house, and to the right is Burycroft, which leads to the medieval bridge and then Abingdon.

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