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Because of his new invention and the new mechanisation it brought about, many people were forced out of their rural homes to work in the factories, and he was forced out of this house and the area.Apart

Brought from London, it marked the north- eastern corner of contractor Thomas Docwra's Grove House estate.

However, water power can be unreliable, so the shed on the left with the chimney housed a steam engine to power the machinery if the water was too low.

Ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bath, and sometimes described as the first true Renaissance house in England, Longleat was built by Sir John Thynne between 1547 and 1580.

Farther downstream from here on the other side of the bridge were the premises of the Wye Fisheries, Stuart House.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

In this view are three of the best buildings in the town: the medieval parish church; the more modern columned art gallery of 1913, which was built to house the work of a noted local artist, Alfred East

The grocers' shop has now been incorporated into the George public house. West Street, whose sign (right) has now gone, is the route to Horncastle and Lincoln.

This had been the Norfolk Coffee House; it was rebuilt in white brick in 1838.

St Peter's Cottage, once a priest's house and now a restaurant, has an inglenook fireplace with a cast iron Sussex fireback of 1657.

In the background (centre) is the Market House, erected in 1836, which was converted to the post office in 1923 by building between and behind its open colonnade.

Beyond the house, on the right, we can just glimpse a chapel.

The varying height of the old houses built of flint and stone with thatch and tile, contrasts with the varying width of the roadway. It is now a village where artists like to work.

The gatehouse was then converted to a domestic house, and it is now the city's folk museum.

Ellesmere Port was a favourite dock for timber from Russia and Scandinavia; from here it was moved all over the north for house building.

The now-closed railway arrived in 1847, but since there were few houses, a station was not built until 1872. There were just five villas here in 1888 when Lord Wimborne built the school.

The Market Place, shown here, has fine 17th- and 18th-century buildings; the 3-storey ashlar-faced house right of centre is a fine example, with its rusticated ground floor stonework, fine pediment

The modern architecture sits very uncomfortably with the earlier buildings – an example is the Fine Fare building, which now houses Super Drug.

Sad to say, the fine thatched house and barn have not survived; only the row of Rose Cottages stand today as a reminder of the tiny village of Wyddial.

Pilkingtom Manor, mostly hidden by the trees on the left, was demolished in 1959, and today only the Dower House (the white gabled building in the centre of the photograph) survives.

The black and white marks on the kerbstones in front of Jane Austen's house make drivers aware of the junction, increasing forward visibility.

His timing proved providential, as his skills were in demand by the families who were moving into the then new houses being built throughout the town.

On 9 September 1940, a parachute mine was dropped on Park Street, destroying 46 houses and making 100 people homeless. On 21 October, bombs rained down, damaging 400 homes.

The houses ae Polly's and Clayhanger (left) and Stoke Lodge (cetre) with the terraces being No 16 to No 6 (right).