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Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

This is the most spectacular house in Ipswich, redesigned c1670 by the Sparrow family. The first floor has oriel windows, in the centre of which are the arms of Charles II.

Polkerris has hardly changed, with virtually no new houses in 70 years.

Bleak House (with the pedimented doorway, right) has been demolished, and rebuilt to an almost identical design.

The building on the right is the Manor House.

The Master Builder's House, now an hotel, was built by Henry Adams so that he might cut a dash on ship-launching days.

The white bow-fronted house is Mizpah of 1877, and beyond is High House of 1879.

The larger house with the dramatic jetty (centre) is Highbank, a medieval hall house. The thatched extension at this end has been demolished.

The Prison Governor's House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was built within the Castle precinct.

It had already been popular with wealthy city merchants for a century or so, and much housing development had taken place along the High Street.

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

The Rose and Crown brewers Nalder & Collyer have had their sign re-lettered, but the Greenstede Café is still at No 82 and the shop between Cromwell House and Sackville House is still a butcher's,

Begun by William Cavendish, fourth Earl and later first Duke of Devonshire in 1687, the House was completed in 1706. The north wing was added between 1820-30.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Leez Priory was a house of Austin canons, founded in the 12th century. After the Dissolution it fell to Lord Rich, who built a new mansion on the site in 1536.

In the foreground we see the roof of Bury House and its stables at the western end of The Bury.

Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne

The house to the left of the Gate is an integral part of the wall. The house facing the photographer was built in the 18th century by John Talman, the Vicar Choral.

A fine view of a house whose gardens were compared by John Aubrey with 'the kingdom of heaven'.

The Reindeer Inn on the left was originally a house called The Running Deer in 1740, owned by the Dunster family.

The world-famous Feathers Hotel was built as a private house in the early 1600s by a lawyer, and no expense was spared.

Formerly the manor house of about 1620, this fine red brick building is now itself deteriorating. Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade.

One of the largest surviving 16th-century houses in the county, this magnificent house was owned by the de la Bere family until around 1831.