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The gabled stone building (in front of the church) housed the Market Offices, and was also a drop-in centre for the unemployed.

The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village.

the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and good limestone houses

In 1955, the agitated ghost of Penn Assheton Curzon probably hovered over the site of Gopsal Park, the splendid house he inherited in 1773, unforgivably demolished in 1951.

The estate covered 770 acres (including the works); when it was finished, it housed around 6,000 people.

In 1951 the Borough of Swindon purchased Penhill Farm, which lay in the parish of Stratton St Margaret, just outside the borough boundary north of the town, for housing.

Until the restoration in 1889, under the open staircase there was a lock-up or blind house.

Sixty years and two world wars on from the photograph of 1906, the late 18th-century house on Church Hill has been demolished and replaced by the War Memorial Building, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in

The pillars were acquired by a Mr Ward, who bought Clinton House and land opposite in 1882.

In this view the photographer is looking east past the junction with Cornwall Road, with the Edwardian houses numbered 152 and 150 nearest to the camera on the left.

To the right, behind the flagpole is the Life Boat House, designed by Charles H Cooke and opened in 1878. The building was enclosed by a fence to protect it from damage by cattle.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family. The central hall is open to the roof beams.

The scene has now altered: the left-hand side of the road has been developed with houses and bungalows, and the church is now converted to a house.

Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house. The village staithe is on the right of the picture, with a row of Georgian houses behind.

The bus queue to Swindon is forming by the two lime trees outside Ashman's butchers shop, today a private house.

The extension erected by Jonathan Hargreaves was demolished at the time the Abbeyfield Society took over the house. It opened as a residential home for the elderly in 1995.

The clock in front of the garage at the end on Gaol Square replaced a fountain built to commemorate Thomas Sidney, born in the end house on the right.

Novelist and poet John Galsworthy lived in Bury House from 1926 until 1933. The 'Forsyte Saga' was completed here. A visitor to the house was Sir James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.

Also in the picture are (left to right) Chandler's House; the 1912 Methodist church; the Bay Horse Inn; and below the parish church, Stepping Stones House.

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Further along Station Road are a pretty thatched building, a good turn of the 19th century local granite house, and the 18th-century Dower House.

To create the large tunnel entrance and the lead-up area, many back-to-back houses had to be pulled down; the town's library also had to be demolished.

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors. The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.