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They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

Mainly Georgian houses front Kimbolton's wide High Street, laid out in medieval times to accommodate a market.

Tucked in behind the Bear is an early 19th-century rebuilding of a timber house, which may have survived the Great Fire.

The triple- storeyed house (centre left) is where the Thaxted Morris Ring was constituted in 1934.

The trees on the left have now been replaced by large multi- occupied office blocks, whilst those on the right shield the grounds of Jireh House; the house was demolished, and a development

The disappearance of the distinctive fence on the left makes the exact location hard to determine but it is likely that the photograph was taken just south of The Old School House on the left and Eastlands

The two houses on the left were owned by Spicer Brothers, who owned the paper mill, and were called Orps Mill Cottages. In 1878, they were insured for £210 and the fuel houses for £40.

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock- Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

The Prison Govenors House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was biult within the castle precinct.

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases

The timbered 16th-century Town House on the left was originally the Abbot of Westminster's Tithe office.

The Purfleet, with its low bridge, is an old tidal inlet of the Ouse. Here stands the exquisite Custom House of 1683, with its graceful classical-style facade.

It is most famous for the superb church and the 15th-century Archbishop Chichele Bede House and School. Note the quality of its stone houses, albeit with some later brickwork.

The mill, functioning in 1890, is now a house, and the weatherboarded bag-hoist house has gone.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken. Dickens died here on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58.

The Eight Bells (left) closed in the 1980s and is now Peal House. Many other houses have a bell connection. The Post Office Stores on the corner closed in 1991.

The house opposite is The Wakes, now a museum illustrating the story of naturalist and explorer Francis Oates and of his nephew Captain Lawrence Oates, who joined the fateful Antarctic expedition in 1911

The brick wall on the left encloses the grounds of Shelton House, the best building in the village, a late 18th- century brick house predating Woburn Sands' arrival; it is now offices.

Despite its grand appearance, the tower shown here is really just a folly over the entrance to a house.

The house on the left is no longer red brick. It would have been rendered not many years after this photograph was taken. In 1967, a new 4-bedroom house in nearby Gomer Lane cost £3,300.

It was once said of Kington that 'if you passed through at any time other than on Market Day you would have seen the shops open, and the houses open, and a few persons walking about the