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The town's thatch hooks were kept on the inside wall of the forge; these were used to pull the thatch off if the house was on fire.

Both clerical gentlemen led the local smuggling gangs, hiding the contraband in the old vicarage - now a beautiful thatched house called Vicars Mead.

The church has stocks and a charnel house in the graveyard. The name Colne means 'roaring river'.

It now houses the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and affords massive views of the city and, of course, the cathedral.

The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

The Grosvenor Hotel, seen here on the right, used to house a famous piece of Victorian furniture, the Chevy Chase Sideboard.

Pevsner describes the early 19th-century house thus: 'With pretty Gothic trim, including a porch and a bay window'.

Stanley's the confectioners (right), with the Strand Café above, housed in the former post office and telephone exchange, was popular with locals.

Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive.

The buildings behind comprise Brown's butcher's shop and slaughter house, long since adapted to domestic uses.

In the background is the elegant classically designed Senate House, with Gonville and Caius College just beyond.

Until the later 19th century, houses were built right up to the right jambs of the gateway.

Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.

On the far right a narrow street separates the old lifeboat house from the white-painted Rashleigh Inn, also in a prime location on the shore.

Until the later 19th century, houses were built right up to the right jambs of the gateway.

At the bus stop we can look down the High Street at the houses and shops.

When visiting Weobley, Charles I stayed in the Unicorn Inn, but that Unicorn was a totally different building which later became a house called 'The Throne'.

This late Elizabethan house is filled with treasures, including fine works of art. The descendants of the original family still occupy the building.

As a lady opens her gate to enter the grounds of the attractive house, she turns to watch the little tot on his tricycle about to ride over the green, perhaps to make sure he is being supervised.

Brookview is the house with Powerstock Primary School behind it (left of centre) and Sunnyside is further up the hill.

The result was the removal of the bay windowed 1890s houses on the far right. Otherwise little has changed.

Excavations were carried out on the Chapter House in 1902, when the graves of five Abbots, including that of Abbot Sampson, were discovered.

The clock tower, partly enclosed by an hexagonal shelter and situated at the centre of a traffic system, stands on the site of a wayside chapel, disused in the 16th century, converted into houses and

These attractive weatherboarded houses still stand. Once Mrs Cudmore ran the tea shop, offering home-made cakes.