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Mr Charles Collins, a Victorian builder, had his offices in this house in the Cornmarket.

The awning of Laslett's shop is just visible on the extreme left, while private houses are vying for room with neighbouring shops.

Two public houses, the Royal Arms and the Princess Hotel are visible as well as two shoe shops, a jewellers and a butcher's shop.

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

plans to include a new pavilion in the Town Square to complement the Toni and Guy and Costa Coffee units, to replace the escalators with stairs and lifts, and to add two new floors to Northgate House

Traffords Stores (right) is now a house, and so is the General Stores (left), where both the window and door are bricked up. The Crown Inn is on the extreme right behind the trees.

This view typifies the unforgettable appeal of Kersey: brick, timber and plastered houses are raised to allow for the slope, with higher and higher steps to the front doors, and there is a pleasing variety

While wheat straw is often used as the roofing material, the chances are that these houses will be thatched with longer-lasting reed from the Broads.

Luton has its parks to remind us of how great houses and landowners gave way to the needs of the many, with great estates being turned over to the people.

The town is studded with fine brick and flint houses with steep pantiled roofs - on the right is the flamboyant brick and pebble Barclay's Bank.

The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

In the centre is Dorset House, now taken over by the Dorset Arms for extra accommodation.

Lyte was the much loved Victorian parson of the fishing town, living high above the town at Berry Head House.

William Morris recorded an impression of 'enormous willows and queer suggestions of old houses on the banks'.

The photographer has managed to capture someone either entering or leaving his or her house.

The 17th-century historian Sir John Oglander remarked in his famous work that 'I knew when there were not three or four houses at Cowes'.

The house behind the large tree, now felled, has attractive pargeting and dates from the 17th century.

The Toll House stands beside a bridge over the River Cam. Here farmers were once required to pay for the right to take their livestock across this bridge.

The house on the right, outside which the rather formidable-looking woman is standing, is reputed to be the oldest in Downderry.

From the left are the Wesleyan chapel (1890), the old school, now empty, and the Friends' Meeting House and burial ground, dating from 1864. The market cross bears the date 1674.

This was probably William Wright, chimney sweep, who built Model Villa - the house outside which the car is standing.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

Here we are given a fine view of some of the Marine Parade guest houses, including the Granby and Ocean Spray. The Empire cinema (centre) is showing the film 'Tycoon.'

Today, there are more houses along the street and fewer trees, and the iron railings on the left have gone.