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

This 1893 view of the Catherine Wheel, an inn by 1499, shows it just before it took over the two Georgian brick houses beyond.

On Friars Point we can see the original Marine Hotel (now Friars Point Guest House).

The Roman road from the bridge over the Wye at Chepstow ran through what is now the racecourse, which stands on land formerly belonging to the Clay family of Piercefield House.

Foreshore houses in St Ives were built with tall gables, and had few ground-floor windows on the seaward side.

This view north towards Forest Hill Station shows the junction with Derby Hill as it was before the church on the left gave way to the Heron House office block.

Built in 1591 for Peter Warburton, MP for Chester, this fine town house passed into the hands of the Stanley family through the marriage of his daughter to Sir Thomas Stanley.

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

Until the 1950s, the wall surrounding Newell House, at the bottom of Greenhill opposite the Crown Hotel, was an accident blackspot and had to be demolished, providing the grassy verge we know today

This timbered, thatched Wealden house was built in 1350 as a home for local priests.

But the whole composition still sits comfortably on its more ancient foundations close by the old manor house.

It closed in the 1970s and is now a private house.

The museum houses outstanding collections, including the museum of the Queen's Own West Kent Regiment, archaeology, Egyptology, ceramics, costumes, Japanese artefacts, ethnography and natural history

The village boasted two large houses, Fredville and St Alban's Court, whose family members lie buried in the small chapels inside.

This photograph was taken from Lambeth Bridge, and shows the Houses of Parliament before Victoria Tower Gardens were laid out on Millbank.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

The main road from Poole to Bournemouth was called Parkstone Hill until the 1890s, when a castellated house called The Castle was built on high ground near the top.

On the right is the slate-hung Stuart House, where Charles I stayed several nights in 1644.

Here we see a corner in the old part of the fishing village, with a Victorian granite house added on the right. Flower pots are all around the upper bay window ledge.

The village, on the eastern side of Garsington Hill, to the east of Oxford, boasts many stone-built houses and picturesque cottages.

There was once a Victorian mill here, though that has now been replaced by housing. Nearby is the site of a Knights Templar hospice founded in 1274.

This is also an area of the town known as Petty France because, along with Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Leek was used to house French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the right is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

Built in 1812, it rises above this wide street lined with Regency and early Victorian houses and an avenue of lime trees.