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Between 1900 and 1905 Vickers built Vickerstown on Walney Island, an estate to house shipyard workers.

The focal point of Forty Hill in the 16th century was the great house of Elsynge, which lay between the site of Forty Hall and the Turkey Brook.

Seatown hamlet consists of the Anchor Inn (seawards) and a coastguard station, comprising a watch house (facing the sea), Guard House Cottages, and the boathouse.

Bethesda House was once a Wesleyan Meeting House for the benefit of older folk who found it difficult to walk up the hill to the Wesleyan Chapel.

Three of the terraced houses on the right were once shops. On the opposite corner, Skoulding's grocer's and draper's had traded since the 1850s.

In fact it is a dual-purpose structure, for the lower storey, below the pigeon house, is a well house with a water- wheel pump.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones. In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.

We are looking west over the village pond into Manor Road; the house on the left is The Beeches.

The timber-framed house dates from the late 16th century. Opposite is Eastgate House of 1590, now part of the Charles Dickens Centre.

Birmingham House, an early 17th century timber-framed double-fronted building, was once the home of the grandfather of Izaak Walton, author of 'The Compleat Angler', published in 1653.

The post-enclosure brick cottages on the left have now been replaced with modern housing. In the distance is the Manor House, once home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the famous landscape gardener.

The three houses each contain three dwellings and are numbered 40 to 56 from right to left. The modern development of Merrymeet has been built behind the houses.

The designer, John Carr, later went on to be the architect of the magnificent Harewood House.

The Manor House C1960 The 16th-century half-timbered Manor House in Vyne Road fronts directly onto the road, so that its striking architecture, including carved bargeboards on the gables, can

Although housing a restaurant at the time this picture was taken, the building has since been converted and split into two private houses.

West Hill House, right, at the corner of Market Hill and Quarr Barton, is Grade II* listed; it was the home and surgery of Dr James for 42 years.

Northumberland House, the Duke of Northumberland's residence, was demolished in 1874 to make way for Northumberland Avenue. The photographer is standing in Trafalgar Square.

A RAC or AA motorcycle rider, without his motorbike, is walking past a row of Elizabethan houses in Friday Street. Henley, with its medieval street plan, has over 300 listed buildings.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

The houses on the left have been altered in a reasonably complimentary manner, but to the right the mature trees have gone, and the 18th-century garden wall has been mostly demolished to form

A neatly manicured gravel driveway in front of the manor house in Fulbourn.

Sir Walter Gilbey, whose name is associated with the Elsenham Jam Company, at one time lived at Elsenham Hall, a house set in wooded parkland.

Here they lead up the motte to the Castle House, which now houses the town's museum.

The immaculate gabled timber-framed house, built as Hartshorne House in 1576, was described in 1863 as 'too dilapidated to allow the lowest to find shelter beneath its roof'.