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While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

Old Place is a 15th- century manor house that was the home of the Apsley family.

The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

The view is south-eastwards to the Bay House Cafe and East Cliff (centre).

This halted boarding-house developments for many years as it used up all the available money.

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

This Edwardian building replaces an earlier private house.

The house dominating the picture was built by Thomas Mansel-Talbot in the 1770s.

The Black Bull public house on the left was later to become a Youth Hostel.

The town developed fast in Victorian times, and in 1896 had a commodious town hall, assembly rooms, a custom house, a literary institute, a club, a market-house and a free grammar school.

Hang a B & B sign in front of the left-hand house, add a telephone pole, turn the downstairs window in the main house into a door covered by a pretty porch and, a century later, there is the view

The roadside house (Newby Bridge House), the big tree and the cottages are virtually unchanged since 1940, but the motor bike and sidecar (centre) are very much of the 1930s.

The Otter pub, a 1930s Surrey vernacular- style road-house, has now been transformed into a farmyard complex: the upper floor of the main block has been white clap-boarded and given a tiled lean-to

It was originally a 14th-century timber- framed house, the home of the Pakingtons, an old Roman Catholic family; there were once five avenues approaching it, but they were cut down before 1800.

Beside the waters of the Great Stour, this great house in its pleasant parkland marks the original birthplace in 1380 of Cardinal Kempe, the ecclesiastical statesman.

Among the old buildings, close to the new centre, is Barn House, an early barn conversion of little merit, Field End Farm House, Field End Lodge and Retreat Cottage, all timber-framed.

This is one of three monuments erected on the Sykes estate; it is directly opposite Sledmere House, and was erected in 1919.

The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood.

The village was built to house the coalminers of nearby Costhorpe Colliery, now closed.

This unspoiled row of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses facing onto the church was built and owned mainly by small farmers and tradesmen, who formed the backbone of the rural affluent society

Beside the waters of the Great Stour, this great house in its pleasant parkland marks the original birthplace in 1380 of Cardinal Kempe, the ecclesiastical statesman.

In 1967 the building was converted to house the Pembrokeshire County Museum and Records Office.

The writer and social historian Thomas Carlyle was born in this house in 1795.

On the right is the old mill house, now converted into flats.