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The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

Opened on 19 July 1911 to house the Royal Liver Insurance Company, this was the country's first building to be constructed from reinforced concrete.

The timber-framed Tudor House, one of the city's finest buildings, dates back to about 1500, and has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

Further up is the Mechanics' Institution, or Institute of Literature and Science, now housing the Wakefield Museum.

Most of the delightful old houses along this street were constructed during the 15th century, at a time when the village prospered as part of the profitable cloth trade centred on Cranbrook.

Its name is said to derive from a Saxon, Gromen (which translates simply as 'the man' or 'groom'), who built a moated castle where the 17th-century private house Groombridge Place now stands.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

Now renamed The Abbey Hotel, this terrace of houses became an hotel in 1879. It is part of the elder Wood's Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade.

The Corporation renovated the house, and the museum opened in 1910. There were eight rooms displaying various eclectic items of local history, art and specialised collections.

The white house across the road was, until 1908, The Sun - a rival for The Star (opposite).

The house on the left was the bakery of William Kenny; hidden behind the next building is the Reading Room of 1858. To the right is Harry Nunn's hardware shop, which closed in c1980.

The end of the next house is made up of alternate courses of brick and beach pebbles. Further on is a row of Victorian terraced cottages, with dormer and bay windows.

The 18th- and early 19th-century cottages on the left face the timber-framed house, which was built as a single dwelling in 1540; it is continuously jettied with a hearth-passage entrance

The lower sash windows of the houses on the left have been replaced by casement windows, and their number increased. On the right, a doorway has been replaced by a window.

Rochdale adopted this red brick building, correctly named the Orchard, as the Manor House because it was the residence of the Deardens before they purchased the manor from the poet Lord Byron.

The thatched 15th-century Swan Inn, owned by Ind Coope, closed in 1983 and reopened as a free house in 1984.

The housing forming a triangular shape on the left was a unique example of early industrial dwellings, but it was demolished, despite protests, in December 1977.

The houses on the right must have been newly built, as they do not appear on the OS map of 1896.

The houses are divided from the hill by a vein of stiff clay (good wheat land), yet stand on a rock of white stone.'

The sad looking building on the left was the Plough public house. In 1928 it was said to have a saloon, a lounge and a dining room, and it sold Bass, Youngers, Hammerton Stout and Fremlin Pale Ale.

The houses behind are late Victorian.

The public house on the right is The White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign.Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's

The buildings housing the premises of Hedges & Son (right), however, have been demolished and replaced by a road and open space leading to a pedestrian shopping precinct.

The houses do not appear to have changed, and even the grass verge is still in good condition.