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The House of Correction stood on this site until 1829. The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells.

A relaxed tea is enjoyed on the sunlit dappled lawns of the Surrey Trust House hotel by these patrons of what would eventually become one of the Trust House Forte chain of establishments.

The timber-framed yeoman's house in the centre of the picture was built in about 1480 for the harbourmaster, but at the time of this photograph it was the home of the actress Ellen Terry, who lived

On the left the former Rifleman's Arms, then a private house, occupies the corner in the Market Square. This was later demolished, and today is a raised area with seats.

There are 18th- and 19th-century houses, and a fine group of public buildings comprising the Town Hall of 1900, the Public Library of 1929, the Fire Station of 1911 and, at the junction with Church End

Broomfield House has a complicated history. It expanded around a simple timber-framed late mediaeval building.

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.

The Steine, originally marshy ground, became the focus of early Brighton development as houses were built for the fashionable visitors.

To the left are Abbey House, the 18th-century town house of the Davers family of Rushbrook, the Cathedral and St Mary's.

The house was begun by William Cavendish, fourth Earl and later first Duke of Devonshire, in 1687 and completed in 1706; the north wing was added between 1820-30.

Woodstock House is a country house hotel nestling in the Downs below the heights of Charlton Forest. We are near Goodwood racecourse, hence the racing scene on the hotel restaurant signboard.

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

Whiligh is a 16th-century house; timbers for Westminster Hall in London were cut from trees felled on the estate in the late 14th century.

The 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene has a massive 16th-century tower with rounded pinnacles, which houses a peal of eight bells. The public house is appropriately named the Eight Bells.

Priesthawes House was built from stone taken from nearby Pevensey?Castle. The local coastline is noted for Martello coastal defence towers, dating from the Napoleonic Wars.

The decorative brick house on the right is worth a second look. Groups of children, probably from St Wilfred's school at the bottom, occupy the street.

Raikes' house looks as if it may need some attention at this date.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House. The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, when these houses were built, the streets echoed to the hum of cloth looms.

What could be more English than the stocks (now restored) on the village green, with the manor house in the background?

Originally an inn, the house on the left of the picture is where Jane Austen lived during the last years of her life. The house was then called 'The Late Inn'.

The Green was, and still is, one of the more picturesque parts of Seaton Carew; the houses were mostly built in the early 19th century.

The house was really two houses: one for the family, the other where John Shakespeare worked as a glover and wool merchant.

The house was really two houses: one for the family, the other where John Shakespeare worked as a glover and wool merchant.